Water Works Notices

Des Moines Water Works has notified some customers that their water contained a potentially dangerous chemical that people drank for months but waterworks’ top official says the water’s fine now and people should be fine even if they drank the water before crews fully treated it. CEO, Bill Stowe, said the water had higher amounts of dirt and fertilizer from runoff over the winter. He said crews had to use unusually high amounts of chlorine to clean the water.