The Hobble Creek home where irrigation water entered the drinking water system
Credit Adam Cotterell / Boise State Public Radio
When the United Water meter reader entered the number on his hand-held device it told him to enter it again because it was outside of normal.
Credit Adam Cotterell / Boise State Public Radio
A United Water Spokesman says if water had been flowing through the system when this meter was being read, the reader would have seen what the problem was and it would have been fixed quickly.
As many as 80 residents of a west Boise neighborhood got sick over Memorial Day weekend. Turns out a nasty bacteria got into the drinking water. Boise’s United Water says it did everything in its power to fix the problem, but some in the neighborhood say the company could have done more.