It is also extremely expensive. Cities have kicked the can down the road for so long that they are starting to freak out at water costs to residents and looking to start their own treatment plants instead of paying bull Run prices. Well water is some of the most price effective in Oregon.
Welcome to Wilsonville. We got tired of getting bent over a post by Portland and turned to the Willamette River, using state of the art treatment (way tastier and purer than Bull Run even). Kicked Portland right in the nuts. Now we’re a water purveyor to surrounding communities and the City of Portland has lost their leverage. Win/ win!
Straight from open reservoirs that birds shit in and transients piss in. Not to mention the dioxins and other pollutants that fall from the sky and into those reservoirs (with no further treatment provided before it spews from your faucet). And the City of Portland wells are toxic soup, pulled from the aquifers along the Columbia River, where all kinds of industries, past and present were located, their toxic byproducts leaching into the soil and then into the aquifer. You're damned right when you say you can tell when you're drinking off the wells......so.......................still wanna argue who has the best H2O???
Only if you get it before it gets to the reservoirs.Good luck with that.....