Posted by Central Menlo, a resident of the Menlo Park: Central Menlo Park neighborhood, on Oct 9, 2012 at 12:26 pm

The hot and cold water screens on the washer were almost completely clogged with brown algae - after cleaning the filters, our wash cycle went from an hour to under 20 minutes

Posted by rodents, a resident of the Menlo Park: The Willows neighborhood, on Oct 9, 2012 at 12:48 pm

I almost bought a new washing machine because it stopped working. The filters were stuffed with this brown goopy algae. Now the washer seems fine. So I have been drinking this stuff for a month?

Posted by vegetable patio, a resident of the Menlo Park: Downtown neighborhood, on Oct 9, 2012 at 3:10 pm

Yum!

Counts as a serving of fruits and vegetables!

Add that to the lime in my G&T, and I'm almost to 5 a day!

Posted by Willows resident, a resident of the Menlo Park: The Willows neighborhood, on Oct 9, 2012 at 4:09 pm

We regularly (and for long before this "recent" algae) have to replace our washing machine filter, sink filters, and irrigation filters. In my opinion this is not a recent issue at all: it's been going on for quite some time, and we really don't understand why.

Intuitively, algae emerges from standing water that is allowed to breed the algae. Where could this be happening? I assume there are filters at the water distribution system intake: how are those performing? Do they need to be cleaned and/or replaced often? Or are they missing altogether?

I appreciate Mr. Carrasco's words but I question the completeness of his report and feel there must be missing information. Let's be transparent here and get to the root cause and solution.