If your water tastes like dirt, then you’re not alone.

The Boothbay Region Water District Trustees expect complaints about the water’s taste this month. The root of problem is a moss growing in Adams Pond. Each August, as part of the moss’ life cycle, it dissipates and oozes up.

District Manager Jon Ziegra told the trustees Sept. 8 that the water quality, other than a slight blemish in aesthetics, is safe to drink and falls well within all state and federal guidelines. The moss has affected both the water’s color — a brown tinge — and flavor.

“It’s not super bad, but it’s brown and has an earthy, musty taste. This is typical for late August, I expect it to last 2-3 weeks,” Ziegra said.

In other action, the trustees heard two East Boothbay men complain about a lack of water pressure. For the past decade, Harry Dudley and Nick McPhee described the water pressure “as being low.”

“It’s really bad this year,” Dudley said during the Sept. 8 trustees meeting. “We thought we’d come and tell you about and at least put on the record.”

Ziegra told the men he’d look into on Friday.

The trustees accepted E.M. Wood Construction’s bid to complete the Southport Interconnection and Tank Projection. The company bid $155,807.50 to connect 1,000 feet of pipe to the work already done from Sawyer’s Pond to an existing main at Cross Point Road.

E.M. Wood Construction’s bid was lowest of the three received. The other bids were Hagar Enterprises of Damariscotta, $253,975; and NA Reny Construction of Boothbay, $159,140.01. According to Ziegra, the project is expected to start Sept. 21 and end Oct. 15.

This is the fourth and final phase of the Southport Interconnection and Tank Replacement Project. The district began the project in 2013 following the acquisition of the Southport Water System. The project is designed to improve the town’s year-round water service.

The trustees also voted 6-0 to pursue a $242,000 state revolving fund grant. The district would use the monies for the Plummer and Nickerson roads water main looping project. A piping loop would connect two crossings of Townsend Gut to provide true redundancy to Southport and improved fire protection for Boothbay Harbor and Southport.

The project consists of installing 1,250 feet of 8-inch high density polyethylene water main on Cape Newagen Road between Plummer and Nickerson roads. The project includes a new buried water main, two new hydrants, isolation valves, and new year-round service connection to several customers, according to the application.

The trustee concluded the meeting in executive session to discuss of confidential records.

The trustees will meet next at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 22 in the business office.