Sunset, La (KADN)- Imagine, waking up to brown drinking water in your home.
"It's nothing new to our town."
For some Sunset residents, they say it's become their reality.
Stephanie Smith Milburn moved back home to sunset eight years ago and says the water problems have been ongoing - and costly for the community and its residents to deal with.
"Other people can afford to put water filters system, but I know people that can't. I know people that are having to deal with this issue and bathe in it. I refuse to buy white towels because it makes no sense, I'm throwing them away," says Milburn.
Johnnie Richard, another resident, recalls speaking with the current, about the need for an updated water system when he first ran for office.
"We need to move sunset into the millennial and try to, first of all, get the infrastructure straight. Eight years later, he didn't get it."
Mayor Charles James says the brown water some residents are currently dealing with is the remnant of this latest water well failure. "The water level are getting lower and so some of the minerals that are in there getting caught up in our pumps and the well."
However, the mayor says work is underway for a new well that should solve the problem. "We just let out bidding for a contractor out and drill a new well and put in some additional IT equipment. Some additional scanning systems. Occurrences like this will prevent that from happening."
They just want the issue resolved quickly.
"We can't keep putting band aids on the situation. We can stop this, turn it around, but we have to work hard to do this," expressed Milburn.
Residents say they plan to reach out to the State Department of Environmental Quality and will ask them to come and test the water quality.
