New light shed on mystery of electrified Montecito home
MONTECITO, Calif. - Trev Broudy has become an expert of sorts on the interaction between electricity and copper plumbing. For several months, he s been on a mission to figure out why his home on the 100 block of Middle Road in Montecito has been electrified and why the tap water inside his home has dangerously high levels of copper. He s frustrated why so many experts have not been able to figure it out.
On Tuesday morning, Bobby Snyder with Quick Response Plumbing in Santa Barbara cut the copper water line running onto Broudy s property and inserted a PVC or plastic coupling. Broudy stood by with a meter used to measure the electric current running through the copper pipe. Before Snyder started working, the meter read 30 volts. By the time Snyder had completed inserting the coupling, the meter reading fell to zero. Broudy said they had finally found a way to stop the current.