The residents of Colcord, Oklahoma, have been infested. What has infested them and where is the infestation. Blood worms have inhabited their water supply. The small, red midge larvae have made a home of the rural town's tap water.
Colcord's 800 suburbanites have been warned by authorities not to drink, cook with, or brush their teeth with the worm-infested water.
As the officials are trying to find a way to rid them of the varmint, the school has been closed since Tuesday.
There has been no known health effects of the worms yet, but the officers are not taking any chances, as they hand-deliver letters to each of Colcord's natives warning them to stick to bottled water.
The town is bewildered as the red worms are normally found in the southeastern United States. The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality is investigating the outbreak, but they are not sure when the water will be safe to use again.
It is a riddle on how the midge larvae cruised through the town's water-filtering armor. "It's not just a little 6-inch filter, it's 6 foot of coal and sand mixed together that not even a hair can get through," said Colcord's Water Commissioner, Cody Gibby. "And these worms are getting through it and getting into our distribution water."
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Ew. this is an intetesting story that they need to get solved. I would be scared of them infesting more things than the water.
How did they even get into the supply, could someone have put them there.
Nobody is sure how they got through. Since blood worms are midge larvae.
Thats disgusting, I would stop drinking the water, and just buy bottled water.
Me too. When they find out how it got through, I would not drink the water, because I would not trust them.
That is weird and nasty. How would you be able to get rid of all the worms?
I am not sure exactly but I know it will take a while to get rid of them.
I would advise them to drink plenty of bottled water!
I don't see what's so wrong about cooking with the water. If it's boiling, that should purify the water. You just have to be sure the water is hot enough!
Yes, but sometimes you need water that is not boiled so you need bottled water.
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