I got bit my a mosquito in my backyard yesterday. My money is on allergies.

Richmond tap water is actually very well rated and is not yellow. Your manager is a liar. Please drop us a hint

i dont want to say for anonymity sake, but before working there I had a good opinion of it. And its a nicer sit down that's not crazy expensive in Carytown.

Not normal or safe. Report the issue to Dept. of Public Utilities at 646-4646

It's Friday, maybe they thought everyone would like some Mountain Dew with their lunch?

Sorry I meant does the water get served to customers by anyone?

Yeah this is a red flag. My water is from the James, the whole city’s is and 99.9% of us don’t have yellow water.

I feel like the health department should have a look see, idk.

The same woman has been recently retired at 37 since at least 2017!

Were they serving soft drinks…from the same water lmao

When the water near me has been yellow the city had to some release a hydrant and let the water run out for a few hours before it went back to normal. They told us not to drink it.

Yellow water can be caused by rust in the pipes and sediments that make their way into the water supply from the source (the James). The office I work in will suffer from the former when the building has been in disuse for a long period, such as a long holiday weekend, but eventually will come out clear again. If the water isn't clearing out, and it's like that every day the restaurant's owner needs to have that looked into. The water from your soda fountain should not be affected as it should be on a rather beefy filter system, for the chemicals they treat water with along with other minerals that are naturally in the water can affect the flavor of soda, and a lot of soda fountains and bar guns have a filtered flat water option. But as I type this, I just remembered another potential cause of yellow water, and that is caused when carbonated water makes its way back into the water supply lines, for when carbonated water mixes with copper plumbing, it produces carbonic acid, which is not good to drink, so check to see if the carbonator's backflow preventer is intact (this is why everything past the carbonator has to be stainless steel or plastic).

Please let us know which restaurant so not to go there.

I work in the kitchen, so I dont. And the manager is the one that told me

This might be a silly question but do you serve this to customers? And who told you this happens all the time? The manager?

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I like to say ‘if you are doing so well you wouldn’t have to recruit people’

What restaurant?

This is dystopian cyberpunk shit. Your boss doesn't care about your health or the patrons health if his response is any indication.

At Mellow Mushroom on Wednesday , they told us that the city had just repressurized their water or something and they weren't serving water temporarily as it was cloudy. I didn't get any water so I'm not sure if it was yellow, but this could be the issue?

Maybe run the water for 5-10 minutes and see if the color changes?

The water intake does come from the James, but it is absolutely treated and is clear before it leaves the facility. The yellow coloring isn’t normal, but also isn’t an indication that it is unsafe to drink; it could just be from extra iron in the water.

The color coming and going is definitely an sign that there is either frequent water main issues near your building or something is shaking the pipes and causing it to mix particles in it.

Water filters that attach to the sink or spigot, or the Brita water pitchers with the filter cartridges, clear this right up.

If the water smells, though, probably best to skip drinking it.

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I have city water in a very old part of town. Water is crystal clear.

its at a place I work at. I dont know about the 'neighbors'. I was told it happens all the time and passes, and that they have no control since it comes from the James, but it makes me really nervous about drinking it.

City water isn’t normally yellow and is generally perfectly safe to drink. Yellow water is an indication of a leak elsewhere in the water supply line or rust. It typically clears up once the leak is fixed.

Check the news for any water main leak and boil water announcements. If neighbors aren’t experiencing that same color water, then the leak may be on your side of the water meter.

Whater doesn't usually come in a yellow color, so it couldn't just be water.