Posted on 12/20/2016 9:22:31 AM PST by Lorianne
A Reuters examination of lead testing results across the country found almost 3,000 areas with poisoning rates far higher than in the tainted Michigan city. Yet many of these lead hotspots are receiving little attention or funding.
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Keep your eye on Pittsburgh.
The city farmed out management of it’s ancient water system to Veolia Water. Apparently they made a chemistry change to save money, very much like what was done in Flint. And they did not get approval from the state DEP before doing so.
Lots of tap testing going on as we speak.
We use a five filter reverse osmosis purifier. Then again, our water system itself is only eight years old.
Wanna bet it’s poor Whites who are affected?
I notice on the interactive map that Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Ohio are eat up with lead contamination. All supposed demoncrat strong holds. I wonder if this news was delayed until Hitlery’s last hope was gone.
Trump’s fault.
Yep, all this contamination started on Nov 9th, 2016 you can be sure.
All of the old rust belt cities have issues with lead because lead pipes were used as the supply lines from the day they started pumping water into homes until about 1930.
Finding and replacing every lead supply line under every older home is an incredibly time consuming, expensive undertaking.
Maybe it has something to do with what the EPA considers as “hazardous” levels.
Some of the numbers that I’ve seen would be low that you would have to drink an entire lake’s worth of water for the levels of lead in your system to reach maybe a problematic level.
The official government line is that NO amount of lead is safe to consume.
For the most part this is a non-issue because years of hard water scale have built-up on the inside of these lead pipes, so the water no longer makes direct contact with the lead.
The chemistry change in Flint caused corrosion, which undid this.
Who sets the standard for what is considered lead poisoning?
Granted, it would be ideal for there to be zero lead in anything we consume, but there are limit typically in parts per million or billion.
Then the next question, is what lead quantity actually harms ones health in both the short term & long term?
I question this because if the EPA is setting the standards, the standard is probably over done, not for the sake of protecting humans, but rather for some political agenda not readily visible.
“Finding and replacing every lead supply line under every older home is an incredibly time consuming, expensive undertaking.”
While California is “new enough” not to have lead piping issues, in this past draught our area public water agency broke a 100 year “contract with their customers” by “supplementing” our Sierra watershed supply with 100 million gallons of Sacramento River water per day. Immediately we noticed that the water smelled and it both looked bad and tasted funny. So we called the district to speak to one of their water chemists. He ended up admitting that they didn’t really know what was in the river water and that they only were treating it for bacteria and not looking for heavy metals. So we got our own filtration system to make sure that we got healthy water. And now that the crisis is past, we are continuing to use our in-house filtration because we can no longer trust the water district to provide us healthy water. My point is that people have to look out for themselves today. We can no longer rely on our institutions to be honest and ethical. There are most likely untold Flint’s around this country, wherein most agencies are like the DMV or the VA, lying to their customers all the while they are padding their wallets with bonuses.
I remember years ago reading that fluoride increases the leaching of lead in old pipes.
A lot of people dying of lead poisoning in Chicago.
The dems here are using it as an excuse to go after our governor, Ric Snyder.
The NRA?
That’s an impossible target. I used to live about 30 miles northeast of flint, and the biggest issue with lake and well water was high levels of arsenic. I know where flint gets its water from. Their old water system is steel and cast iron piping, and about the only lead present would be in caulking at the joints.
Flint isn’t old enough to even consider having any real lead piping. I’ve done remodeling work on old houses in cities all along that stretch of I-75, and I have NEVER come across a single piece of pipe made out of lead.
About the only lead bearing material that I’ve came across is caulked joints in cast iron pipe, solder joints, and maybe some leaded brass fittings and fixtures. Not enough to be an issue.
Areas eaten up with lead contamination = All supposed demoncrat strong holds
Coincidence?
Here’s an idea, how about not moving into an old house with peeling paint. Those same parents are probably moving into school districts that have major problems and then whine their kids aren’t getting a good education and are expelled for bringing a pop tart to school. No, the family budget has nothing to do with the problem of dumb parents - example the doctor.
lol I’ve been wondering when this kind of story would come out.
NO WAY this problem was limited to JUST Flint.
Anyone have a chart that shows lead contamination and snowflake population percentages?
Maybe there is help for these people yet.
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