From DC Alerts:
“Pepco reports a power outage in the District, impacting approximately 1900 customers in the Petworth neighborhood. There’s no estimated restoration time is at this time. Please take all precautions.”
Update:
“Pepco reports the Petworth neighborhood power outage affected population has decreased significantly (under 20 customers). The approximate restoration time is 7pm.”
From Alert DC:
“Pepco reports multiple power outages in the District, impacting approximately 1500 customers in the following neighborhoods: Carver, Langston, Columbia Heights and Near Northeast. Estimated restoration time is unknown, however Pepco is working to resolve each outage. Updates to follow.”
via DC Water
This is pretty great (jump directly to the Map here) – from DC Water:
“Lead service lines were predominately installed prior to the mid-1950s in the District of Columbia, but there are records of lead service lines being installed as late as 1977. You can use the map at right to see if your property has or might have a lead service line, based on DC Water’s records and other available information. (more…)
From ALERT DC:
“PEPCO reports a power outage in the following upper Northwest area: Connecticut Ave, Florida Ave and 18th Street NW neighborhoods. 620 customers are reported affected by the outage. PEPCO crews are working to resolve the problem. No estimated restoration was time given. All affected customers call PEPCO at 1-877-737-2662.”
Photo from PoPville flickr user hellomarkers!
“Dear PoP,
I’ve noticed for the past few months that the water in my apartment smells very very strongly of chlorine. When I take a shower, it smells like I got out of the pool, when I cook with the water straight from the tap, my food tastes off. I’m now filtering all the water I use for drinking and cooking, but the brita filter’s not strong enough to remove the chlorine smell. At first my roommate and I thought it was just us, but I’ve noticed it at friends’ houses, and now one of my co-workers who also lives in northwest just mentioned it at his place.
Is this a sign of something horrendous in the DC water supply that they’re trying to cover up with chlorine? An attempt to destroy the city’s sense of smell? Is it dangerous to be ingesting this much chlorine?
Does anyone know the reason for it?”
I know folks have been mentioning this in some random reader rant and/or revel posts. But I can’t recall – did anyone ever figure out the reason? WASA?
I’ve heard folks talking about this Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Dupont but I haven’t noticed it in Petworth. Is this phenomena city wide?
“Dear PoP,
I’m not sure if you’ve done any stories about this in the past, but my Pepco bill has jumped from $68 in October to $330 in December. My roommate and I share a smaller two bedroom apartment in an older row house. We are very energy efficient and were actually out of town for 9 days in December while we racked up this bill- the heat was off and major appliance were unplugged. So my question is, does the bill seem reasonable for December or is there something wrong with my bill or heating system? Any help you or your readers can provide would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.”
Has anyone had crazy increases to their Pepco bills? I’ve never had an electric bill jump that high? Has anyone had an error in billing before? If so, how did you remedy it?
“Dear PoP,
I recently moved into DC from Arlington, and while I’m loving the change, I’m not so thrilled with how my tap water tastes. Even filtered through my Brita pitcher, it has a not-so-delicious “metallic sewage” scent and flavor. I don’t want to go to bottled water – expensive and wasteful – so I was wondering if any readers had suggestions on undersink or other types of filters that worked well in DC? I was reading the annual water quality drinking report (http://www.dcwasa.com/waterquality/waterquality_reports.cfm), and it identified some specific problems in DC water, so I was hoping someone had already done all the research about what was the best filter to remove those particular contaminants!
Thanks,
Thirsty Reader”
This is a great question. The best solution I’ve come up with is that I use a brita filter on my tap and then I pour that water directly into a brita pitcher for a double filtration. And if all else fails I then mix in a healthy dose of powdered iced-tea mix… What sort of filters do you guys use?
I was at a bbq where someone noticed this crazy light pole. That is insane. One lightning bolt and four blocks of houses would be screwed.
Who provides the best cable/internet service: RCN, Comcast or Verizon? Do you think we’ll ever get FIOS in the city?