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We live on the sixth floor of a six-story coop building. For as long as we’ve lived here, ten years, we have had trouble with the bathtub water being dirty-yellowish, to really gross-brownish, often with bits of residue in it. Often we have to let the water run for up to an hour for it to be clean. Sometimes this doesn’t work. Our super thinks it’s because our apartment is the furthest away from the boiler and he has to let the water in the boiler run off. This also doesn’t work all the time. We’ve asked building engineers and our management company why this is happening, and no one has ever given us an answer. Any insight into this problem is greatly appreciated.