Sandy City • Residents here Monday sprayed city leaders with concerns about the drinking water and asked why they didn’t learn of problems faster.
Boyd Liddiard, who lives in Sandy City, as does his 88-year-old father, questioned how the municipal water system could be allowed to have such a failure. Just as important to Liddiard was why Sandy waited so long to tell residents of tainted water.
A power outage Feb. 6 caused a pump to flood parts of Sandy’s water system with large amounts of fluoride. That can cause health problems, and the acid corroded pipes in some homes to discharge heavy metals such as lead and copper.