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Old February 27th, 2006, 11:04 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing,misc.rural,misc.consumers
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http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=650
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Old February 27th, 2006, 11:29 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing,misc.rural,misc.consumers
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On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:04:10 -0600, Barney Fife
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http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=650


Isn't this the case with most rivers in built up areas in the US?
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Old February 28th, 2006, 01:15 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing,misc.rural,misc.consumers
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A User wrote:

Barney Fife wrote:


http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=650


Isn't this the case with most rivers in built up areas in the US?


yep. people see a river as a place to toss stuff they no
longer want. cities dump their sewage in rivers. I LOL
at how Chicago dumps their treated sewage in the same lake
they take their drinking water from. I LOL at Raleigh for
allowing homes with open septic drain fields on land around
Falls lake where Raleigh takes their drinking water from.

sad these things are but LOL is better than crying since
neither will change how big money is ruining this planet.
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Old February 28th, 2006, 02:26 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing,misc.rural,misc.consumers
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Jim Ledford wrote in news:44039637.A15C8C21
@bellsouth.net:

snip

I LOL
at how Chicago dumps their treated sewage in the same lake
they take their drinking water from.


snip

Well, laughingboy, water discharged from a properly designed
and operated waste treatment plant is cleaner than the water
drawn out of many open lakes in the United States. Chicago's
Metropolitan Sanitary District (MSD) is such a waste treatment
operation.

In fact, MSD could bottle it, sell it to you, and you'd never
know. If you want pure virgin water you need to get hydrogen
and oxygen and combine them by burning.


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Old February 28th, 2006, 02:44 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing,misc.rural,misc.consumers
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On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:26:14 -0500, Sheldon Harper
wrote:

Jim Ledford wrote in news:44039637.A15C8C21
:

snip

I LOL
at how Chicago dumps their treated sewage in the same lake
they take their drinking water from.


snip

Well, laughingboy, water discharged from a properly designed
and operated waste treatment plant is cleaner than the water
drawn out of many open lakes in the United States. Chicago's
Metropolitan Sanitary District (MSD) is such a waste treatment
operation.

In fact, MSD could bottle it, sell it to you, and you'd never
know. If you want pure virgin water you need to get hydrogen
and oxygen and combine them by burning.


I would know, as I did the experiment.
I took tap water from lake Michigan and filled a tall clear bottle
with it. I then put it in a place where it wouldn't be disturbed for
72 hours. After that time, I took the bottle and looked at the
bottom, where a thick brown sediment had settled. My best guess is
that is human fecal material at the bottom of the bottle.

Invisible at first because it is in suspension, but given the
opportunity for gravity to work on it, the accumulation is quite
pronounced, and of the appropriate brown color.

As far as dissolved chemicals are concerned, they remained in
solution. I attack both problems with sediment and activated carbon
filters. I know someone who died from cancer...her doctor said it was
most likely from drinking the water ( Steger Illinois, which I think
is/was wellwater until we got a feed from Lake Michigan through a
Chicago Heights distribution station ).

In summary, I would not feed tap water to a stray DOG, without first
filtering it through sediment and activated carbon/charcoal filters to
remove _most_ of the impurities. There remains the *heavy metals*
problem, but those filters are way way expensive. Activated
carbon/charcoal with a pre-filter for sediment provides a Good Return
on Investment (ROI). I have two of them in series, for drinking water
purposes only.

Nobody at this house drinks water from any source that isn't first
filtered with my own equipment.

Lg
Chicago ( far South Side )
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Old February 28th, 2006, 03:16 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing,misc.rural,misc.consumers
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I would know, as I did the experiment.
I took tap water from lake Michigan and filled a tall

clear bottle
with it. I then put it in a place where it wouldn't be

disturbed for
72 hours. After that time, I took the bottle and looked

at the
bottom, where a thick brown sediment had settled. My best

guess is
that is human fecal material at the bottom of the bottle.


LOL. your "best guess"? you just made that up.


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Old February 28th, 2006, 03:28 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing,misc.rural,misc.consumers
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In article ,
Lawrence Glickman wrote:

I would know, as I did the experiment.
I took tap water from lake Michigan and filled a tall clear bottle
with it. I then put it in a place where it wouldn't be disturbed for
72 hours. After that time, I took the bottle and looked at the
bottom, where a thick brown sediment had settled. My best guess is
that is human fecal material at the bottom of the bottle.


I'm guessing iron. I'd bet money against visible organic matter if the
water actually came out of a municipally-supplied tap.

Without proper collection, storage and testing (all of which are a
genuine pain in the keister), an experiment such as yours tells you one
thing: "there's a brown precipitate in the water."

Our tap water comes from a private well. On occasion, it is brown or
blood-**** colored. At first, I too thought it might be some kind of
fertilizer. We live in a rural area, after all. So, I went online and
found out how to collect tap water for testing.

Collected it, stored it and took it to a commercial testing facility
where (after paying $50 per sample) we found out our worries were
unwarranted. It was just a heavy concentration of iron, common in the
midwest.
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Old February 28th, 2006, 04:08 AM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing,misc.rural,misc.consumers
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Lawrence Glickman wrote:

[....]

Jim Ledford wrote:

snip

I LOL
at how Chicago dumps their treated sewage in the same lake
they take their drinking water from.


[....]

I would know, as I did the experiment.
I took tap water from lake Michigan and filled a tall clear bottle
with it. I then put it in a place where it wouldn't be disturbed for
72 hours. After that time, I took the bottle and looked at the
bottom, where a thick brown sediment had settled. My best guess is
that is human fecal material at the bottom of the bottle.

Invisible at first because it is in suspension, but given the
opportunity for gravity to work on it, the accumulation is quite
pronounced, and of the appropriate brown color.

As far as dissolved chemicals are concerned, they remained in
solution. I attack both problems with sediment and activated carbon
filters. I know someone who died from cancer...her doctor said it was
most likely from drinking the water ( Steger Illinois, which I think
is/was wellwater until we got a feed from Lake Michigan through a
Chicago Heights distribution station ).

In summary, I would not feed tap water to a stray DOG, without first
filtering it through sediment and activated carbon/charcoal filters to
remove _most_ of the impurities. There remains the *heavy metals*
problem, but those filters are way way expensive. Activated
carbon/charcoal with a pre-filter for sediment provides a Good Return
on Investment (ROI). I have two of them in series, for drinking water
purposes only.

Nobody at this house drinks water from any source that isn't first
filtered with my own equipment.

Lg
Chicago ( far South Side )


Lg - smart person, good job for your work.
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Old March 5th, 2006, 07:08 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing,misc.rural,misc.consumers
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In article , other-
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On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 16:04:10 -0600, Barney Fife
wrote:


http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=650

Isn't this the case with most rivers in built up areas in the US?


Yeah. You are strongly advised not to eat any fish caught downstream of
Portland-Vancouver on the Columbia River. The salmon runs don't spend
enough time in the water there to become toxic, but all native fish are
poisonous. Animals that eat a lot of fish, like river otters, have an
extremely high rate of birth defects, organ deformities and cancers.

About 5 years ago, they discovered that the BPA had used the spillway of
Bonneville Dam as a dump site for junk electrical transformers
containing PCBs. There are thousands of them down there, completely
rusted out. Trying to get them out of the river would be worse than
leaving them. Someday they may rebuild the diversion channel they used
to build the dam, and shovel up the goop. Nobody is planning to do it
any time soon.

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