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I work at a building on the other end of downtown, near Pioneer Square, and we have brown water in our toilets.
So far that's the only problem, but I'm glad we have our water cooler/heater cause I need that hot water for lunch.

Enigma

Posted by Enigma | April 25, 2007 11:30 AM
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Me! Me!
No visual feces (disappointing), but we did lose our water pressure. Now I have to go all the way down to the 2nd floor to use the bathroom. Can you imagine!?

Posted by Lindy West | April 25, 2007 11:34 AM
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Apparently KEXP has no plumbing whatsoever, and they're having to run to Starbucks for bathroom breaks. Bummer!

Posted by Tipper | April 25, 2007 11:40 AM
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Brown water over here on Elliott Ave @ Bell Street. YUCK!

Posted by chrisdiani | April 25, 2007 11:48 AM
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Somebody over at the Seattle Livejournal community posted pictures earlier this morning of the thing gushing water.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/joandirk/472520854/

Posted by ica | April 25, 2007 11:53 AM
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brown water here, in the ID near pioneer square.

Posted by gross | April 25, 2007 11:54 AM
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Brownish water in the toilets in my Downtown office building!

Oh, but I bet it's TOTALLY SAFE AND HARMLESS. Thanks for the CYA- ERRRR heads up, Public Works.

Posted by Gomez | April 25, 2007 11:55 AM
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Holy crap that's my dojo in those flikr photos! Guess we aren't having practice tonight.

Posted by Ann | April 25, 2007 11:59 AM
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I was watching the comotion from my building downtown and noticed there is some kind of strange flag on the Needle this morning. I can't make it out, is it a giant peach? lil help!

Posted by longball | April 25, 2007 12:11 PM
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I'm on the other side of 99 on the lower east side of Queen Anne. Our building was without water this morning, but it came back on around 9:30am. And it's very very BROWN. But I think it's rust brown, not sh*t brown.

Posted by meh | April 25, 2007 12:13 PM
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I noticed slightly tinted water in the toilets at my gym downtown, and I guess I must have taken a shower in the stuff, wonderful. My workplace toilets also have tinted water.

Posted by keshmeshi | April 25, 2007 12:37 PM
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yeah, i think when they flush the pipes, which this in effect may be doing, the sedimentary buildup is pushed out. i still wouldn't drink it...

Posted by infrequent | April 25, 2007 12:44 PM
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Hey I live in North Capitol Hill, between Seattle Prep and 520 and around 9:30 am this morning we noticed brown water in our sinks and toilets for the first time ever. Too big a coincidence not to think its connected. How big is this backup?!!

Posted by ellen | April 25, 2007 1:02 PM
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East slope of Queen Anne: before we left for work this morning, we referred to the water as Rich Brown Gravy (RBG).

Posted by Miss Stereo | April 25, 2007 1:49 PM
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eep. i'm just up the road on dexter, and we are brown and slimey in the water department.

Posted by bree | April 25, 2007 1:50 PM
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We have brown water in our toilets in Lower Queen Anne too!!

Posted by Frankie | April 25, 2007 1:51 PM
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Co-worker who lives in a condo on Aurora, overlooking Lake Union, said that she completely lost water in her unit this morning.

Posted by downtown | April 25, 2007 2:13 PM
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I drove through it this morning, heading E from Lower Queen Anne towards I-5. Despite numerous repair vehicles and a brigade of workers on-site to fix things and help with traffic, traffic wasn't really much worse that a bad morning commute. The water ran between Dexter and Terry.

It was A Lot Of Water! Up to a foot or more deep in places, and moving with quite an angry bit of force downhill. It looked like water-main water, not sewerage. Brown because the force that it had was washing out whatever dirt was in its way. Pretty impressive fuckery.

Posted by Lloyd Clydesdale | April 25, 2007 2:18 PM
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YEAH! I was stuck on Mercer for over a half and hour this morning with no way to get off of the road to go another route. It sucked.

Posted by Carollani | April 25, 2007 2:23 PM
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-- a friend just told me that he was driving on the block where it happened, right when it happened. they broke a water main and a construction dude put his hands in the air and screamed "oh no". just like a bad/great/bad troma movie...

Posted by Aaro)))n Edge | April 25, 2007 4:12 PM
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Is anyone still seeing the brown water? The water out of my faucet has a strange smell this morning...

Posted by Roger | April 26, 2007 8:48 AM

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