Ed T... "Gnu. When I stay in a Hotel in Moncton, and fill the bath tub with water, it is clearly yellow. What's the deal with that? Do I recall the water system was closed for a summer (a few years back) , because of dead animals in it?"

Yellow... yeah, our pipes are old and there is a filtration problem which does affect some areas of the city, but that is being addressed and is far more limited now. As for the dead animlals... yeah... someome tied four hogs to alders in shallow water in the main resevoir one summer. (We had a "boil order" and not a shut down.) I wonder WHO would have done THAT eh? Hard to imagine but it DID happen.