Re: WAY otp: does anyone have a clue what this is?

Let me try a few suggestions. Are you quite sure what you are seeing is
biological. When my parents lived in western North Carolina, they had fine
powdered granite that would settle out of their water. Not so you would
notice in a glass but enough to see on the bottom of a white container such
as a tub. It was harmless, though they did start using a filter on their
drinking water. A Britta or something like that. The non uniform colors
sounds like that.

Here where I live there are government environmental safety office, state
federal county whatever. They will likely have an answer if this is
something common to where you live. And they will have tests run on a
sample of water you supply for just about everything from what sort of plant
food you need you use or what plants you can grow to safety and purity
tests.

Since it isn't Monday yet, its probably a good time to meet your new
neighbors and find out if this is familiar to them.

Jo


"Diane" <dcham@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1125181070.528443.158820@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> i've been excited about the fact that my "new" house (1986) has a
> whirlpool tub, but so far, i've been unable to use it. first the water
> was rusty. over the course of filling and emptying the tub for a few
> days, it cleared. i was getting ready to clean the tub with bleach (as
> in the instructions) and upon filling the tub, i saw two areas on the
> bottom that looked like little pools of sand. i drained the tub, but
> the pools remained, for the most part. i picked up some of the "sand"
> and it looks like. . . insect eggs, maybe? very tiny, almost as small
> as a grain of sand, mostly white, some tan and some black.
> UGH!!!!!!!!!!!! they're perfectly round and they roll around like
> little bits of mercury. i vacuumed them out of the bottom of the tub
> (once the tub was dry), then did the clean the tub with bleach thing.
> well, they are still there, much reduced in number, but i can't bring
> myself to take a bath in the tub. (and i really, really want to!) they
> cling to the sides of the tub as well as the bottom. does anyone know
> what this is, and better yet, how i can get rid of it?
>
> diane
>


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