Comore Loma subdivision has water worries

For the second time in as many weeks, homeowners in the Comore Loma subdivision in Bonneville County have been under a boil-water advisory.

The Comore Loma Water Corporation issued the advisory Tuesday morning citing a drop in pressure as the cause. The advisory said, “A drop in water pressure is a signal of the existence of conditions that could allow contamination to enter the distribution system through backflow, by backpressure, or back-siphonage.”

It wasn’t until Local News 8 approached homeowner Ken Stowe that he found out his water needed to be boiled.

“The only way that you can find out is to look at the website and nobody looks at their website every day,” said Stowe. “We had no notice.”

Stowe has gotten his water from the Comore Loma Water Corporation for seven years. He said the scarcity of water has been a problem every summer.

“It’s always ‘next year it’ll be better’ and next year, it’s not,” said Stowe.

He and the rest of the homeowners are only allowed to irrigate their lawns twice a week. His neighbor Mike Jones said many lawns throughout the subdivision are brown. Jones said his concerns are deeper. Residents near his home have lost their water altogether several times.

“The fact that our water could be contaminated, the fact that we could not have water in the fire hydrants when we need it,” said Jones. “Those are the issues that I think the neighborhood is really concerned about.”

Despite loving the neighborhood, Jones said had he known about these issues a year ago he wouldn’t have bought his home.

“I think our value has dropped quite a bit since finding out theses issues and I don’t know how we would sell the home to somebody else until the issues are resolved,” said Jones. “From the day we moved in we had that problem and like I said, nothing was in the sellers’ disclosure.”

Tuesday afternoon Local News 8 left a message with the Comore Loma Water Corporation, as well as the phone number listed on the advisory. We have not heard back.