AMARILLO, TEXAS -- We first told you about an unusual taste being reported in Amarillo's water supply a few weeks ago.
It's due to the city switching water sources from Lake Meredith to blended well-water and some viewers tell us, the taste is still there.
The main source of water coming into the city now is from wells in Roberts and Carson counties and as it mixes with Amarillo's current supply it's picking up a taste, according to David Reasoner, Chief Chemist with the City of Amarillo's environmental lab.
"As it makes it way, it picks up low level trace organics and creates a little taste and odor."
So, the city lab is adding and removing carbon as a filter and say water exported today into the system is void of that peculiar taste.
"Taste and odor are now completely removed as we had to fix the system. It took us longer than we thought, but leaving the plant now, we can't detect anything. It will take a little while for the public and the city to get it flushed out of the system."
And after utilizing Lake Meredith water for more than 40 years, Reasoner says the blended well water will have a new taste we'll have to get used to.
"So if the public will be just a little bit patient with us and let us get the city all flushed out, then the last remaining thing we have to do is for everybody to get used to 100% well water."
