Foamy Hackettstown water?
Does anyone else have a soapy like water coming from their faucet, If I fill my cup from the faucet it almost foams over, and then settles down within 30 seconds but still has a bit of foam around the corners, this doesn't seem normal
Darrin 
Jdem 
happiest girlNo, sounds kind of nasty. Hope you didn't drink it. I am in Hackettstown and mine seems to be okay.
JRT Have had it for awhile now. We don't use our water for anything but bathing. It is pretty gross. We can smell the chlorine every time we turn on the tap.
Jane doe 
Caged Animal http://www.cbnbh2o.com/tips/milky.html
"Milky white water, also commonly described as cloudy, hazy, soapy, or foamy, is almost always caused by air in the water. One of the many properties of water is its ability to dissolve gases. Sometimes the air comes out of the water in the form of many tiny bubbles which gives water a milky white appearance"
maybe see if you let it sit and it gasses off?
skippy Skippy, it definitely does go away after it sits, but as you fill up a cup it had a foamy head, and the water was cloudy, almost like you added soap.
I just filled up a couple glasses of water and this is no longer happening I always use a brita to filter my drinking water, but seeing this makes me really wonder about our quality of water in H-town. I remember reading the water tests the HMUA used to send out and seeing a lot of the numbers were right at the max allowable always bothered me....
yeah agreed - I had a thread about the possibility of chloramines in the water you may want to look at http://www.hackettstownlife.com/forum/521415
Good info skippy, and worry-some, I have never tested the tap water for my aquarium, I have always just used it thinking if they send it to us to drink...it must be okay for the fish.
After this mornings episode it really has me thinking, I want to get a water test kit and send it out to see just what they are letting us drink
mistergoogle http://www.agra.us/
these guys are in dover - maybe you can ask for a quote if that doesn't work.
Foamy water again, noticed it as I was filling my brita, I immediately dumped it back out
You should look into that....
Is it correlated to when they bring the heavy machinery in next door? Maybe shaking the pipes?
Certainly not rain.....
Did you test?
No haven't tested yet, i know shame on me. I am not sure about the machinery, I doubt it though, I find it strange that nobody else gets this problem, it only happens at times, and now it has cleared up, it's almost like there is soap in the water, and it is not my dishes because i first noticed it in the brita which has never done that and has not recently been cleaned. When it happens I try filling multiple cups to double check
Did you check some of the other sinks or flush the toilet? You did leave the garden hose in a bucket of soapy water?
The first time it happened i did check another sink and it was the same, never popped the top of the toilet to see if it was soapy when it filled.
Darrin
First of all, have you suffered from low water pressure lately or have the hydrants been flushed by where you live? If you, you are probably getting backflow contamination, either from lack of an air gap in the system where there should be one, or from a part of your water supply that is lacking a backflow preventer, such as on the supply line going to a dishwasher, etc. Have you washed a dog with a flex hose that you attach to a spigot and allowed it to be submerged in a slop sink or tub with water in it? If someone flushed a toilet in the house while that was submerged and you had no siphonage preventer on the line, it could have pulled soapy water into your system and temporarily contaminated it!
I used to work in a Home Center Store (had a number of interesting jobs) in the plumbing Dept. and that was one thing that we ran into on occasion. If you experiencing this, but not your neighbors, then your house system may have an issue somewhere. There are a good number of articles out there that deal with the subject, but here are a couple that explain part of it.:
http://www.ci.chelsea.ma.us/public_documents/ChelseaMA_DPW/Cross-Connection%20Control%20and%20Backflow%20Prevention.pdf
http://www.portagewi.gov/vertical/Sites/%7B889D2199-3A6C-48F9-AB94-DE81D288EE40%7D/uploads/Cross_Connection_Informational_Handout.pdf
If you have the time, here's a great handout from the West Virginia, the "CROSS-CONNECTIONS AND BACKFLOW PREVENTION MANUAL" by the Bureau for Public Health, Department of Health and Human Resources. It is a great treatment of the subject:
http://www.wvdhhr.org/oehs/eed/swap/training&certification/cross-connection&backflow/documents/cross_connection_backflow_prevention.pdf
Best of luck finding what it is - please let us know when you find out, or if you're still having issues!
Phil D. Phil D, I appreciate the info
I do not have a dishwasher and whenever I shut off my outside hose i shut the metal valve right before it goes into my house, there would be no way for back flow there.
Also water pressure is fine.
Now with the hydrants that's another story, at times they will hook up a hose to the hydrants and use them to wet down what they are working on over at bergen tool....you may be onto something here
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