Hard water woes?

[ravenword.livejournal.com]

Hello Davis residents! Recently (well, for several months...) my roommates and I have noticed some mysterious stains appearing on our laundry. They look like either rust stains or bleach stains. My roommate did some Googling and read that chlorine bleach can interact with the iron in hard water to create stains like this, and she was wondering if I could poll the community to see if anyone else has had similar troubles. What say you?

Comments

[talonvaki.livejournal.com]

I don't ever use bleach...so...no.

[kjc.livejournal.com]

Well there's a boatload of chlorine in the water itself, as part of our water treatment.

chlorine

[matthew miller (from livejournal.com)]

Actually, Somerville gets its water from the MWRA, which, since July 2005, has used an ozone-based process rather than chlorine as its primary disinfectant method. (The water tastes noticably better than it used to!)