Local woman says she’s been dealing with brown water flowing from her faucet for over a decade

CLARK COUNTY — A Clark County woman says she’s been dealing with brown water rushing from her faucet for more than a decade.

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Shianne Richardson, of North Hampton, told News Center 7 that she spends “upwards of $100″ each month, on top of her water bill, on bottled water jugs. That’s all because of how inconsistent the water has been coming out of her pipes for over 10 years.

“We can’t feed it to our animals [and] we can’t drink it ourselves,” Richardson said.

As reported on News Center 7 at 6:00, Richardson shared a video of the water and claimed it’s been an issue since they moved in nearly 11 years ago.

“It’s very inconsistent,” she said. “One day it will smell like bleach, like a straight chlorinated, heavily chlorinated swimming pool.”

Then the water will change in the next day or even just a few hours later.

“It will be brown like mud,” she described. “Just like straight out of my faucet brown. More than rusty like well water type of thing; just brown.”

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Richardson said she uses Brita filters, but she has to constantly change them because of the brown water that comes from the faucet. She said it’s an expensive and exhausting chore considering she and her partner struggle to use their water for much of anything.

“I mean shower, wash our clothes, brush our teeth, all of which we can’t do,” she said.

She said she never knows what her water is going to look like when she wakes up.

News Center 7 reached out to village officials to try and get answers on what is going on with the water but did not hear back at the time of the report.

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