Comments | snow_lynx: ARSENIC IN THE WATER

snow_lynx

ARSENIC IN THE WATER

Dec 29, 2008 21:40

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/dec/29/roane-county-exec-expects-tva-change-ash-storage-m

A few steps ahead of the government warnings, again, thanks to some savvy friends and a little "better safe" behaviour. We are now ( Read more... )

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flemco December 30 2008, 02:49:40 UTC

This is going to sound retarded, but: Do you mind if I use you as an example to prove that yes, my survivalist schtick ISN'T silly?

snow_lynx December 30 2008, 03:09:02 UTC

No way, man, I don't mind at all - Your advice means I'm not panicking right now, I've got enough clean water to practically *bathe* in, let alone cook, eat and drink for a couple weeks. I mean, hell. We read your post and thought, "That's pretty solid preparation, let's do it," thinking we'd never need it, and we do, now. And we're covered. So hell yeah, tell people we're living proof you're not silly.

smokin_man December 30 2008, 07:50:52 UTC

and when he's done may I also use the same shtick to all of my friends;)

Arent you so glad you listened to our rabid rantings?

Glad you didn't get the poisoned

Mick

snow_lynx December 30 2008, 11:25:14 UTC

Absolutely! And that's the answer to BOTH your questions!

crankycoyote December 30 2008, 03:12:35 UTC

You might want to get your well checked out before you leave. You're far enough away from the spill, and upstream from it, so it might not actually affect you. Or it might; I'm not a hydrologist, but it would suck to leave a house that nice without knowing for sure.

snow_lynx December 30 2008, 03:19:35 UTC

Absolutely. We had professionals in tonight, but they have to send the heavy metals one to a lab. They found the standard crud, and that our water is ridiculously hard (typical is 6.5, Dallas is around 8, ours was 14), but they can't tell more than that yet. And the City gave us a number to call for a free heavy metals test, too, which we're calling in tomorrow. And also an air quality test.

And arsenic can be filtered out of well water with a whole-house filtration system. If we can convince our landlord to buy one. Which shouldn't be hard if there's arsenic in the water!

We're not *definitely* moving, but we should find someplace to go in case we have to.

No matter how we have leave it, leaving this house will hurt a LOT.

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snow_lynx December 30 2008, 19:26:06 UTC

We have in-line filters - problem is, they do not catch arsenic and heavy metals :-(

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