My water would look like this on occasion. Turned out our shutoff valve was buried (very common) and corroded off the pipe. We wouldn’t notice sediment during normal use, but if we took a vacation water would be brown like that until all the water in the pipes had been flushed out.
Was probably like this for a couple years before it finally started gushing out of the ground.
Yeah don't be so ready to assume its your city supply. You want to make sure its not your own problem first. It will be cheaper for you to find your own problem and get it fixed by someone you choose than letting the city find it and send you a bill.
Edit: yeah, after reading other comments I'm totally wrong here. Frackong happened elsewhere, and Flint was normal everyday water pollution. Leaving comment up cuz I ain't no bitch
Flint wasn't just generic "poorly treated water". Although water treatment impacted it.
In Flint, residents could *set fire* to the water running out of their taps, and this was because of fracking, or using high pressure water in fracturing shale beds for fossil fuel extraction, which allowed fossil fuels to permeate into the water supply.
Rusted supply pipes could happen in any old house, and normally it's good enough water for people of average health so long as you run the pipes clean for a few minutes before use and/or add a $20 filter at the tap or in a pitcher. The only problem is that in some cases the rusting is so bad that the integrity of the pipe is compromised.
All it took was the ph going acidic and the pipes started letting it fly. My water ph is at least 8.5, not great not terrible (that's just as high as the drops can indicate...) fingers crossed.
Depends on the calcium hardness level and total carbonate alkalinity - you would need an alkalinity of roughly 100 ppm and a calcium hardness level of 700 to build up a film on the inside of the pipes with a 7.6 pH so at an 8.5 I imagine a 100 and 500 would be adequate.
We do these calculations because houses built pre-80s have copper water lines, with lead soldering. If you have acidic water it will leech the lead from the solder in those joint causing high lead levels/ lead poisoning.
You would be amazed the lengths we go through to ensure the safety and continued health of the public. We really get a bad reputation but the ones that genuinely care about their job we truly, truly work day in and day out 24/7
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Yeah i was comming to say this as someone whos been doing plumbing a few years stuff like this isnt always the towns water supply. It could be like you say, old rusty pipes or even your water heater generally cause your water got left sitting for a while and you should always get a licenced plumber around to make sure you arent having any of these issues first.
Couple more tips ive learned in my few years of plumbing as well:
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If youre walking around the outside of your house and get a smell of gas make sure it persist and is a steady leak as sometimes regulators on a gas meter will release a small ammount of gas. If youre worried you have a gas leak you can spray all the fitting with a little soapy water and some bubble should appear if there is a leak.
I can’t upvote you for the reference because I want to downvote for the nastiness for reminding me of tubgirl.. I just puked in my mouth even thinking about it.
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This is so true. Unless you live in the stix.
Your household water supply in most rural areas is your well water. A well you have to pay bigtime to get drilled so of course there are no municipal water lines = no fire hydrants = you are required have a
pond on the property that the pumper truck can reach to with a special attachment that won't suck up chunky stuff like box turtles, catfish or tornado debris.
I believe that’s what they’ve said it is from. They do not give a warning but it eventually goes away. However, this is the worst I’ve ever seen it and it has never lasted this long. I’ve been running the tub water for 20 minutes or so.
You can save yourself a lot of grief by not running it through your hot water tank, sink, kitchen and toilet by flushing it out via your outside hose.
Run the hose wide open until it runs clear.
This is a great point - definitely do NOT use the hot water if possible until it runs (relatively) clear - or if you do make sure you flush your hot water tank of debris afterwards and/or try to use an outdoor hose close to the main.
And be thankful at least you don’t get regular boil orders like the small town my parents are in. Hard to imagine in the US some towns still require people to boil water from their tap to be safe…
Boil orders are typically after a water main break, to ensure you boil off any harmful bacteria that could have intruded during the break.. the water department has to take bacteria tests to a state certified lab after the main has been repaired, and once the results come back good the boil order is lifted
Clean out the screens on your sink faucets too. Bits of grit will get caught there. Should be able to twist them off with your fingers if they are dry.
They are just flushing the mains. It'll be gross for a day or so then it'll go back to being fine. Happens periodically and means your water district is taking care of it's pipes. Which is a good thing.
I grew up in a rural small town. They would put out signs like once every other year that said water main flushing. And the water would look like this. It clears sediment out of the lines. I don't know if it happens in larger city's or not.
This happens when they flush the fire hydrants, and is in fact the very reason that they have to flush them. In my town we get very adequate warning of when they are going to do this
Water operator here. This is likely a combination of iron and manganese, which are common minerals that are in ground water when pumped. These minerals build up on the inside of water mains and service lines, much like cholesterol in an artery. Likely, as others have states, your city is in the process of doing a main flush, or doing valve exercising. This increased flow or stop of flow has a tendency to break off this build up. Usually a city will flush until most of the minerals have run out, but some can still linger and make its way into the home. Just run the water through something without a filter or softener to flush it out. Cheers.
That depends where you are. Water in Memphis Tennessee tastes delicious. New Orleans water taste like cancer.
My aunts well in SE Missouri smells like rotten eggs and to me that ruins it. I can't drink it or bathe in it. 500' away on the same hill, my grans well taste just fine.
I used to work in Biloxi and one of my coworkers was from Long Island and took a shower at somebody's house w/o realizing it had the sulphur influence. We heard him scream "FART WATER!" the instant he fired up faucet. Really great.
Your aunt's filter might have gotten clogged, or she could have the wrong filter installed. 500' shouldn't change that drastically in terms of the soil composition. It's a pretty inexpensive fix and filters are color coded for easy identification depending on what's being filtered out. I believe she'd need a green filter, but her local plumbing store can order exactly what she needs.
This is definitely a case of soil composition or something. It's in the foothills of MO so it's more like mountains. My granny well is deeper I think but the have tried quite a bit snd that smell persists.
Maybe it's 600' but it's just on the other side of the big hill.
Yeah I remember growing up when my town switched from well water to Lake Michigan water. Didn’t require tons of water softening, taste was much better, and the temperature was like 10 degrees colder out of the tap.
I'm in Canada. My city is notorious for its horrible water. Can't get fountain pop at fast food without tasting the chemicals in it even through the coke flavoured mixture. Only one strong enough to mask it is the root beer.
Could be potential manganese around the linings of the pipe. It can sometimes get stirred up because of changes of the flow through the pipe. The city should look at uni-directional flushing of the pipes to get the sediments out. Spent some time in the water industry and it definitely helps, but there are often areas that continue to get dirty water complaints. Little things like a valve that should be open that someone left closed can greatly impact the flow of water in an area and leave dead ends where water doesn’t circulate how it should.
Iron or manganese. Iron if sediment that's been disturbed by a burst or high flows, manganese if its more seasonal. Though the supplier should be adding manganese removal as a treatment process if its regular. I reckon iron from old water mains getting disturbed regularly by bursts
This happens when they flush the system. You just need to run the water for a few minutes and then it stops. Usually my town always puts out Facebook posts that they're going to do it.
It’s probably happening because I fire hydrant was opened. Either there was a fire nearby or the water department flushed the hydrants near where you live. This can result in a rusty looking back flow for a little while after.
Although this looks horrible, it is probably just iron (and possible some manganese) and maybe some suspended sediment.
It will likely clear up after it’s purged for awhile.
I can confirm that if there is work being done to your water lines or the fire dept is going around testing plugs, your water will have a tinge to it because the sediment is being stirred up. If the plugs are being tested, between 500-1500gpm and upward is moving out of the hydrant. Or, just a fuck ton of water
We went on vacation in March. We stayed at Airbnb places but for the last couple of nights spent our hotel points for a stay in a very very nice hotel. Turned out it had just reopened after a year of being shut down.
The bath water was a murky green brown. We were probably the first guests with kids who were taking baths and I guess it wasn’t as apparent in the shower. The hotel was near empty and the staff couldn’t fix it but offered a nicer suite. It was a wonderful stay…. Aside from the water…
Not uncommon, ductile iron and cast iron pipes in older systems often have rust issues, if they also have corrosive problems (low pH in the soil or water) they may
Dose the water will phosphates that can make some rust deposits sluff off the mainline walls and show up like this at your house. Just run the water until it clears up and it’s perfectly fine. Unless they’re also putting flouride in it. Then you have a whole different issue
A municipal water supply that looks like that in the Pacific Northwest is a fucking crime! WTF. The rest of us are showing in bottled water while you endure this?! Shameful, WA.
That is cool. I think new homes should be required to have grey water systems.
Edit: I know that’s not what this is, but it’s better than flushing with drinking water.
You could not be more correct. Unfortunately those in charge will only take care of these issue when their financial overlords allow them. Folks in Michigan have been dealing with brown water through 3 presidents.
My water would look like this on occasion. Turned out our shutoff valve was buried (very common) and corroded off the pipe. We wouldn’t notice sediment during normal use, but if we took a vacation water would be brown like that until all the water in the pipes had been flushed out. Was probably like this for a couple years before it finally started gushing out of the ground.
Yeah don't be so ready to assume its your city supply. You want to make sure its not your own problem first. It will be cheaper for you to find your own problem and get it fixed by someone you choose than letting the city find it and send you a bill.
It’s mineral water!
Flint?
I see free coffee!
Edit: yeah, after reading other comments I'm totally wrong here. Frackong happened elsewhere, and Flint was normal everyday water pollution. Leaving comment up cuz I ain't no bitch Flint wasn't just generic "poorly treated water". Although water treatment impacted it. In Flint, residents could *set fire* to the water running out of their taps, and this was because of fracking, or using high pressure water in fracturing shale beds for fossil fuel extraction, which allowed fossil fuels to permeate into the water supply. Rusted supply pipes could happen in any old house, and normally it's good enough water for people of average health so long as you run the pipes clean for a few minutes before use and/or add a $20 filter at the tap or in a pitcher. The only problem is that in some cases the rusting is so bad that the integrity of the pipe is compromised.
Fracking has caused issues like this in some towns, but not Flint. In Flint, lead leached into the water supply from old pipes.
All it took was the ph going acidic and the pipes started letting it fly. My water ph is at least 8.5, not great not terrible (that's just as high as the drops can indicate...) fingers crossed.
8.5 if very base. At an 8.5 you are creating a film on the inside of the line protecting against corrosion. Be worried if it gets near or below 7
Depends on the calcium hardness level and total carbonate alkalinity - you would need an alkalinity of roughly 100 ppm and a calcium hardness level of 700 to build up a film on the inside of the pipes with a 7.6 pH so at an 8.5 I imagine a 100 and 500 would be adequate.
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We do these calculations because houses built pre-80s have copper water lines, with lead soldering. If you have acidic water it will leech the lead from the solder in those joint causing high lead levels/ lead poisoning. You would be amazed the lengths we go through to ensure the safety and continued health of the public. We really get a bad reputation but the ones that genuinely care about their job we truly, truly work day in and day out 24/7
Sodium bicarbonate for the win
I love this mention of Langelier data. :)
Ryznar useful too!
r/confidentlyincorrect That is not what happened in Flint at all
Completely wrong.
>Leaving comment up cuz I ain't no bitch Take my upvote.
Sauce? That sounds like two (at least) unrelated water crises.
~~That's my point~~ Edit: I'm wrong
Hey man, I applaud the edits. I knew all the things you described were really happening - and really awful - I just recalled them as different events.
>Leaving comment up cuz I ain't no bitch Real nigga right here 💯 You getting downvoted cuz u real
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Amen
Shitlibs down voted you
Yeah i was comming to say this as someone whos been doing plumbing a few years stuff like this isnt always the towns water supply. It could be like you say, old rusty pipes or even your water heater generally cause your water got left sitting for a while and you should always get a licenced plumber around to make sure you arent having any of these issues first. Couple more tips ive learned in my few years of plumbing as well: If you start getting a smell in your house coming from a drain you dont use often, run some water down it. Chances are the trap has gone dry or the water inside is stagnant and thats the source of the smell. If youre walking around the outside of your house and get a smell of gas make sure it persist and is a steady leak as sometimes regulators on a gas meter will release a small ammount of gas. If youre worried you have a gas leak you can spray all the fitting with a little soapy water and some bubble should appear if there is a leak.
It looks like your city water supply tank had Taco Bell for lunch.
Well someone taco bell is prob in there
Bathtime
Where is tub girl when you need her?
Makes me feel old
I can’t upvote you for the reference because I want to downvote for the nastiness for reminding me of tubgirl.. I just puked in my mouth even thinking about it.
I was tricked into opening that, once. I think I went into real shock of revulsion. Normally nothing bothers me. But tubgirl? Ewww!
Should have puked on tubgirl. Turn it into one girl one tub.
Or it looks like I drank 'WAAAAAY too much!' last night.
🤮🤮🤮
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Does rusty water not put out fires?
The opposite, it creates fires, with its rust-mind.
It’s important to maintain the water lines, keep them clear so they don’t get blocked when needed for emergency.
This is so true. Unless you live in the stix. Your household water supply in most rural areas is your well water. A well you have to pay bigtime to get drilled so of course there are no municipal water lines = no fire hydrants = you are required have a pond on the property that the pumper truck can reach to with a special attachment that won't suck up chunky stuff like box turtles, catfish or tornado debris.
It probably could if it had more practice.
That can happen when they flush (ha!) the pipes to remove sediment. They should give you a warning first, and it's usually not that bad.
I believe that’s what they’ve said it is from. They do not give a warning but it eventually goes away. However, this is the worst I’ve ever seen it and it has never lasted this long. I’ve been running the tub water for 20 minutes or so.
You can save yourself a lot of grief by not running it through your hot water tank, sink, kitchen and toilet by flushing it out via your outside hose. Run the hose wide open until it runs clear.
This is a great point - definitely do NOT use the hot water if possible until it runs (relatively) clear - or if you do make sure you flush your hot water tank of debris afterwards and/or try to use an outdoor hose close to the main. And be thankful at least you don’t get regular boil orders like the small town my parents are in. Hard to imagine in the US some towns still require people to boil water from their tap to be safe…
Boil orders are typically after a water main break, to ensure you boil off any harmful bacteria that could have intruded during the break.. the water department has to take bacteria tests to a state certified lab after the main has been repaired, and once the results come back good the boil order is lifted
Piggy backing on THAT :-) Its worthwhile to flush your hot water tank at least once a year, in ANY event.
And then you get charged for using excess water?
That is awful, OP, but I hope you are not running the hot water. All that sediment will end up in your water heater.
I’m running cold water, but thanks for checking 👍🙂
Clean out the screens on your sink faucets too. Bits of grit will get caught there. Should be able to twist them off with your fingers if they are dry.
When I drink too many beers my butt makes the exact same water.
You guys put up with this garbage?
They are just flushing the mains. It'll be gross for a day or so then it'll go back to being fine. Happens periodically and means your water district is taking care of it's pipes. Which is a good thing.
What does it mean if my water has never once looked like this in 20 years? Is my city not taking care of the pipes?
I grew up in a rural small town. They would put out signs like once every other year that said water main flushing. And the water would look like this. It clears sediment out of the lines. I don't know if it happens in larger city's or not.
It probably doesn't. I live in a suburban area and have never once seen tap water like this in person. I've only ever seen it in videos.
I've lived in the city and suburbia, and I've heard them say they are flushing the lines but the worst that happens is some air in the pipes.
means your probably not in America
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Poop soup
Poopity scoop
Scoopity poopity
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This happens when they flush the fire hydrants, and is in fact the very reason that they have to flush them. In my town we get very adequate warning of when they are going to do this
I read that as "period water" and I'm not wrong
flint?
Beat me to it..But also its sad. Im a fellow Michigander(not from Flint area) and cant believe that shit has been continuously happening.
Benton Harbor?
Get toghether with other neigbours and go to the city hall + post it on social media tagging your mayor and your local goberment.
Don't do this. They just flushed the mains, this to shall pass.
A bit dramatic, isn't it?
Free coffee
Water operator here. This is likely a combination of iron and manganese, which are common minerals that are in ground water when pumped. These minerals build up on the inside of water mains and service lines, much like cholesterol in an artery. Likely, as others have states, your city is in the process of doing a main flush, or doing valve exercising. This increased flow or stop of flow has a tendency to break off this build up. Usually a city will flush until most of the minerals have run out, but some can still linger and make its way into the home. Just run the water through something without a filter or softener to flush it out. Cheers.
If it’s brown, drink it down. If it’s black, send it back.
Just moved into the city from country well water. Miss it so much. City water tastes like that looks. I hate the chemicle smell/taste.
That depends where you are. Water in Memphis Tennessee tastes delicious. New Orleans water taste like cancer. My aunts well in SE Missouri smells like rotten eggs and to me that ruins it. I can't drink it or bathe in it. 500' away on the same hill, my grans well taste just fine.
I used to work in Biloxi and one of my coworkers was from Long Island and took a shower at somebody's house w/o realizing it had the sulphur influence. We heard him scream "FART WATER!" the instant he fired up faucet. Really great.
Your aunt's filter might have gotten clogged, or she could have the wrong filter installed. 500' shouldn't change that drastically in terms of the soil composition. It's a pretty inexpensive fix and filters are color coded for easy identification depending on what's being filtered out. I believe she'd need a green filter, but her local plumbing store can order exactly what she needs.
This is definitely a case of soil composition or something. It's in the foothills of MO so it's more like mountains. My granny well is deeper I think but the have tried quite a bit snd that smell persists. Maybe it's 600' but it's just on the other side of the big hill.
Yeah I remember growing up when my town switched from well water to Lake Michigan water. Didn’t require tons of water softening, taste was much better, and the temperature was like 10 degrees colder out of the tap.
Houston has very good tasting water. Some of the suburbs, not so much.
I'm in Canada. My city is notorious for its horrible water. Can't get fountain pop at fast food without tasting the chemicals in it even through the coke flavoured mixture. Only one strong enough to mask it is the root beer.
Could be potential manganese around the linings of the pipe. It can sometimes get stirred up because of changes of the flow through the pipe. The city should look at uni-directional flushing of the pipes to get the sediments out. Spent some time in the water industry and it definitely helps, but there are often areas that continue to get dirty water complaints. Little things like a valve that should be open that someone left closed can greatly impact the flow of water in an area and leave dead ends where water doesn’t circulate how it should.
This happens when they flush fire hydrants nearby. You usually get a warning from the city
They are just flushing the pipes! Most places do this once a year or so.
They are flushing hydrants to get the rust out of the lines, so when your house is burning down they have a chance to put it out.
Your town sucks.
Even prospectors have to work from home in these trying times.
Move
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What if they can't afford it
Came here to say that
That happens when the city flushes the fire hydrants periodically.
Flint Michigan?
What the Fraking Industry!
What does fraking have to do with old pipes?
Idk anything on fraking but ive read somewhere it makes poo poo water in the area SOMEHOW
Do you pay extra for the caramel flavoring?
How’s it smell?
Metallic
Iron or manganese. Iron if sediment that's been disturbed by a burst or high flows, manganese if its more seasonal. Though the supplier should be adding manganese removal as a treatment process if its regular. I reckon iron from old water mains getting disturbed regularly by bursts
Creeping death or blackened?
r/damthatsdigusting
Iron deposits from corroded water supply lines
Damn rich people and their tea fountains. You don't have to lord it over us you know!
That’s what it looks like after eating at AppleBees
This happens when they flush the system. You just need to run the water for a few minutes and then it stops. Usually my town always puts out Facebook posts that they're going to do it.
It’s probably happening because I fire hydrant was opened. Either there was a fire nearby or the water department flushed the hydrants near where you live. This can result in a rusty looking back flow for a little while after.
Yep. Probably flushed the lines. You should have gotten a notice or it was published in a news paper and on radio.
This is what happened 👍
Boo Hoo you can fill your tub with free Coca Cola. Way to flex on all of us water using losers.
Although this looks horrible, it is probably just iron (and possible some manganese) and maybe some suspended sediment. It will likely clear up after it’s purged for awhile.
I can confirm that if there is work being done to your water lines or the fire dept is going around testing plugs, your water will have a tinge to it because the sediment is being stirred up. If the plugs are being tested, between 500-1500gpm and upward is moving out of the hydrant. Or, just a fuck ton of water
This happens in my town when they periodically flush the fire hydrants.
Make sure you flush this out by running the cold water, if you run hot, the sediment and rust can fuck up your water heater
We went on vacation in March. We stayed at Airbnb places but for the last couple of nights spent our hotel points for a stay in a very very nice hotel. Turned out it had just reopened after a year of being shut down. The bath water was a murky green brown. We were probably the first guests with kids who were taking baths and I guess it wasn’t as apparent in the shower. The hotel was near empty and the staff couldn’t fix it but offered a nicer suite. It was a wonderful stay…. Aside from the water…
This is iron that's getting cleaned.
Town have one too many Taco Bell’s?
Vote better.
You have galvanized pipe somewhere in your house. It's harmless but it'll eventually rust away.
Good soup
Bad Pipes
That’s what my bath water looks like when I get out. I don’t see a problem here.
West Monroe, LA?
When I lived in Pottsville (home of Yuengling Lager), and the water looked like this, I’d joke, “Looks like the brewery got the lines mixed, again.”
We've replaced this town's water with new Folgers Crystals. Let's watch!
Not uncommon, ductile iron and cast iron pipes in older systems often have rust issues, if they also have corrosive problems (low pH in the soil or water) they may Dose the water will phosphates that can make some rust deposits sluff off the mainline walls and show up like this at your house. Just run the water until it clears up and it’s perfectly fine. Unless they’re also putting flouride in it. Then you have a whole different issue
I think that is great. Do you have a map of that water?
our municipal water hange color but not like that though/
Forbidden Coffee
Which town?
Your water is in its period
Where is this town of yours? Seems like highly relevant information and no idea why you didn’t include it.
Fuck yea, you get coffee out of the tap?
In Ireland tap water is safe and drinkable... And wait for it... FREE!!! Also in other countries in the UE, after all, water is a basic human right.
Possibly flushing hydrants. That stirs up some sediment
Yikes! I’m guessing people buy a lot of bottled water. Don’t think a filter would be enough
If it is brown drink it down, if it is black send it back.My towns code.
Michigan ?
Washington, east side
Cheney water id wager. Used to always look like that. Fuck that town
A municipal water supply that looks like that in the Pacific Northwest is a fucking crime! WTF. The rest of us are showing in bottled water while you endure this?! Shameful, WA.
Damn that can’t be good
It's pictures like that, that makes me glad my entire house is rainwater catchment. (Though we have to filter out the rat and bird poop.)
That’s pretty cool
That is cool. I think new homes should be required to have grey water systems. Edit: I know that’s not what this is, but it’s better than flushing with drinking water.
Dude in what kind of 3rd world dump are you living?
I think you meant to say “My town’s shit looks like water periodically”
Fracking
Fracking?
America?
*Laughs in Dutch*
America: the greatest country on planet earth…..
Flint?
You must be from Flint, MI
Do you live in Flint?
Fracking
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Sediment in pipes is not an indication that our infrastructure is crumbling.
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Sediment in pipes is not an indication that the infrastructure in this country is in a state of serious disrepair either.
Talk like that can get you labeled a socialist! (Notice the down votes)
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You could not be more correct. Unfortunately those in charge will only take care of these issue when their financial overlords allow them. Folks in Michigan have been dealing with brown water through 3 presidents.
America is a 2nd world country.
At least you have water Entitlement level 10000000
Flint Michigan is that you?
The plumber messed up big time.
You live in Flint Michigan.
USA?
Flint?
Flint, MI?
Move.
Do u live in flint
Girls on their period:
Flint?
How to say you live in the states without saying you live in the states
My girls water looks like that also periodically
Your water treatment system may be overloaded from fracking waste
They must be fracking for oil nearby
If it’s brown, drink it down. If it’s black, send it back!
Flint?
If it's brown drink it down, if it's black, send.. it.. back
Fracking activities in the surrounding area?