The water quality in Jim Thorpe Borough continues to plague its council.

Erica Redline attended a recent council meeting on behalf of her grandparents, who live on Center Street, and have been dealing with dirty water for around two years."Their water filter is filthy 30 minutes after they change it," Redline said. "They have been changing it every two weeks, and that is a significant cost for people in their 80s. It takes a half-hour of running the water for it to be clean. I don't think you should have to pay for water that looks like that."According to Redline, others along the street are experiencing similar problems. Councilman John McGuire said he has a whole bag of dirty filters at his residence."We've talked about it enough, it's time to take action," said Councilman Greg Strubinger.For now, the solution is a bit of trial and error. Council agreed to have its engineer, Kim Mazur, discuss the issue with Vince Yaich, Jim Thorpe water supervisor."Now that the weather has warmed up, the line should be flushed weekly," Mazur said. "It's a line that dead-ends with a limited number of customers on it, so the water doesn't get turned over frequently. In order for the line to be fresh, it needs to be consistently flushed."Redline said her grandparents don't cook with or drink their water. For years, they lugged gallon jugs of water up stairs, but are unable to continue that practice as they get older.Several years ago, borough officials said they would test the water, according to the Redline, but the family never got results."We want something to be done other than simply acknowledging this is a problem," Redline said. "We'd like results. This is disgusting. I don't think anyone would want to drink water that looks like that."