We live in a 9 story 5 year old new construction building in Brooklyn. Each unit has its own gas powered hot water heater.<\/p>\n
This wednesday night while filling the tub for our daughter we noticed black particles in the water. We drained the tub to rinse it out & found that they were malleable & smeared when you tried to wipe them. They are smaller than coffee grounds.<\/p>\n
We checked every water source in our apt (except the dishwasher & washing machine). Everything has black particles – even the toilets. The sinks and tub only have them when we run the cold water. Presumably our hot water heater has a filter which is why we don’t have the particles when we run hot water.<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We live in a 9 story 5 year old new construction building in Brooklyn. Each unit has its own gas powered hot water heater. This wednesday night while filling the tub for our daughter we noticed black particles in the water. We drained the tub to rinse it out & found that they were malleable…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47303,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-42786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plumbing"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/04\/black-particls\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Black Particles in Water","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/04\/black-particls\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2010\/04\/black-particls\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Plumbing","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"jennyF"}],"creator":["jennyF"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2010-04-09T10:50:08Z","datePublished":"2010-04-09T10:50:08Z","dateModified":"2010-04-14T09:57:57Z"},"rendered":"