'Probable Brown Water Cause - June 25, 2025 (6/28/2025)
Would your staff show me what they did at US 1 on the night of June 24th to remove the water main to the plant from service. If so, we should be able to determine the cause of the current brown water situation, which would prevent future occurrences? High demands cannot explain the fact that there were spikes in brown water complaints during 2022, 2023, and 2025, but not 2024, where summer temperatures were comparable each year. Water hammer from operations at US 1 can provide such an explanation.'
Talking To the Aiken City Council Sickens Me and Their Refusal to Ensure Our Health Should Sicken You
To fight against this international drinking water disease spree, I presented the following speech to the Aiken City Council (Aiken City Council meeting, 7/14/2025, Click Here, minute 31:04).
'Let's Talk About 'Brown Water'.
I strongly believe that grave injustice is being executed against the people of Aiken by the Aiken City government. In addition to negligent ongoing destruction of the Aiken water system, the foreseeable and preventable brown water fiasco that swept across our city is cloaked in political coverup.
To stand against our Aiken government to improve public health, I published an Op Ed in June 2025, titled "Aiken, S.C. + Drinking Water = Brown Water + Parallel Health Hazards", [click here].
[Water Hammers Create Health Hazards in Drinking Water]
I dedicate most of my life to public safety through research of water hammers, which are high-pressure shock waves in water mains that can travel at speeds of thousands of feet per second.
The following proven research brings me here tonight.
- Water hammers are the primary reason for increasing water main breaks in Aiken [Figure 2].
- Water hammers are the primary reason for increasing brown water complaints in Aiken [Figure 3].
- Brown water incidents happen every month of the year in Aiken and are caused by water hammers.
- Water hammers loosen lead in lead pipes to induce lead poisoning.
- Water hammers spread infectious disease through drinking water.
- The recent - June 2025 - brown water fiasco was caused by water hammer, not weather.
[Aiken Fights Technology]
The city falsely claim[ed] in the Press that the recent brown water fiasco was caused by high water use due to heat and seasonal high demand [and later stated that activities at the water plant may have also contributed]. Aiken had peak brown water complaints for several years but not 2024, which had somewhat hotter days than this year. How can last year be okay and this year be terrible?
In my professional opinion, water hammers due to Aiken water system operations explain this disparity among different years. Based on Freedom of Information Act requests to date, the Aiken brown water fiasco of this magnitude was initiated by a high-pressure water hammer.
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