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employee2

November 11, 2017 11:55PM

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As an engineman on the C&TS from 1970 - 1980, I, and the other trainmen, drank (and filled our water bags) from the Cumbres and Sublette standpipes daily, and no one I knew of ever got sick. These standpipes got their water from spring-fed underground cisterns, and the water was sweet and ice cold.

However, I remember that one year John Oldberg (then Superintendent of the C&TS) began sending in water samples from the Cumbres reservoir for testing. They (almost) always came back with a bacterial count of "0", but one time came back with "TNC" - "Too Numerous to Count"!

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Don't Drink Water Tower Water	Prowordsmith	November 11, 2017 01:09PM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	Tomstp	November 11, 2017 02:04PM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	CharlieMcCandless	November 11, 2017 02:08PM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	Don Newing	November 12, 2017 05:08AM
Perhaps "General Palmer's Revenge"...	74ford	November 11, 2017 10:27PM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	Tomstp	November 11, 2017 02:08PM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	Will Gant	November 11, 2017 06:02PM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	employee2	November 11, 2017 11:55PM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	Will Gant	November 12, 2017 01:05AM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	Earl	November 12, 2017 09:51AM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	MD Ramsey	November 12, 2017 11:36AM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	Dirk Ramsey	November 12, 2017 07:50PM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	employee2	November 13, 2017 06:53PM
Re: Don't Drink Chama City Water . . .	Johnson Barr	November 13, 2017 07:58PM
Re: Don't Drink The Water . . .	Johnson Barr	November 11, 2017 06:27PM
Re: Don't Drink The Water . . .	hank	November 13, 2017 07:37AM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	CharlieMcCandless	November 11, 2017 07:07PM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	Jim Grigsby	November 11, 2017 07:55PM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	dave2-8-0	November 11, 2017 07:58PM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	J.B.Bane	November 12, 2017 12:45AM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	Johnson Barr	November 12, 2017 11:47AM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	hank	November 13, 2017 07:42AM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	pd3463	November 13, 2017 07:51AM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	philip.marshall	November 12, 2017 04:43PM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	Chris Walker	November 12, 2017 12:43AM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	Jerry Huck	November 12, 2017 05:25AM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	Greg Scholl	November 12, 2017 08:01AM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	Pat Fahey	November 12, 2017 05:08PM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	Nelson Bros Lumber Co.	November 12, 2017 08:07PM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	Prowordsmith	November 13, 2017 10:05AM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	jim pallow	November 13, 2017 05:47PM
Re: Don't Drink Water Tower Water	jerryvi	November 13, 2017 07:30PM

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