You can replicate this effect at home. Just pick a faucet that you don’t need daily, and then don’t use it for a few months. When you first run it, you’ll have that same “rusty” water.
There is always a certain amount of rust and sediments in the water lines. But your normally functioning water system is a relatively stable and smooth flowing system. When they open up those huge lines to flush out fire hydrants though, you disturb that system quite a bit. The huge increase in water flow stirs up that sediment that normally happily sets at the bottom of your line, filling the water system with rust and debris.
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