Aquifer with muddy water, can it be cleaned/saved?

[ryuushingaku]

This may be elsewhere, kindly point me if so. I found my light aquifer, I did my channeling, walling, etc. and it seems to be safely waiting now for me to get a well going for it.
But then I noticed it has muddy water. Is this OK for a hospital? It's in some loam and silt. I can 'move' it I think by digging a path to the nice stone, (if I don't get the excitement of sudden death flood, losing is fun) will this fix it or is it doomed now?

[Sim]

Pumps could clean watter before. Prob still can

[kheftel]

i think dwarves can drink muddy water but will get bad thoughts from it? for a hospital... hmm, I'm not sure. but if you make your well more than 1 z-level deep, only the bottom layer will be muddy, and the top should be fresh.

[Robert]

If a water source is only one z-level deep and its floor is covered by "a pile of mud" (like most underground pools), then any water taken from it will be "water laced with mud". Drinking water laced with mud will give your dwarves an unhappy thought. It might also cause infection if used to clean a wound, similarly to stagnant water.

Unlike stagnant water, merely moving the water with flow or gravity, or keeping a level of water higher than one z-level will take care of the problem, since it only occurs if the water source tile contains "a pile of mud", and water coming into contact with a clean floor only creates "a dusting of mud".

The wiki is your friend, really.

[kheftel]

Originally posted by Robert:

If a water source is only one z-level deep and its floor is covered by "a pile of mud" (like most underground pools), then any water taken from it will be "water laced with mud". Drinking water laced with mud will give your dwarves an unhappy thought. It might also cause infection if used to clean a wound, similarly to stagnant water.

Unlike stagnant water, merely moving the water with flow or gravity, or keeping a level of water higher than one z-level will take care of the problem, since it only occurs if the water source tile contains "a pile of mud", and water coming into contact with a clean floor only creates "a dusting of mud".

The wiki is your friend, really.

+1

[ryuushingaku]

Thanks!