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State of emergency declared for NW Ohio counties over water contamination
Fox8News ^ | 8/2/2014 | Shannon Carney

Posted on 08/02/2014 2:13:59 PM PDT by EBH

Edited on 08/02/2014 2:33:34 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

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To: blueplum

How does this effect the fish?

Is that going to be another disaster?


41 posted on 08/02/2014 3:10:17 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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I wonder if the Feds will use this to open up the FEMA camps?


42 posted on 08/02/2014 3:12:30 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: Kartographer

According to the EPA link it looks as if ozone treatment is the most effect. Chlorine and (wood, not bamboo) charcoal can be done, but with a little more difficulty. This is at the individual level. I don’t know how they could treat at the water company lake intake point.


43 posted on 08/02/2014 3:14:39 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: PA Engineer

effective = effect


44 posted on 08/02/2014 3:16:48 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: All

Could the water be distilled with a home unit and be safe?


45 posted on 08/02/2014 3:21:27 PM PDT by CharlotteVRWC
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To: cripplecreek

Who peed in the reservoir?


46 posted on 08/02/2014 3:22:21 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: al baby
Terrorism?

The article states it is a toxin from algae growing in Lake Erie.

47 posted on 08/02/2014 3:23:04 PM PDT by OldMissileer
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Well, there’s always beer and wine...


48 posted on 08/02/2014 3:23:50 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: cripplecreek

Common core English..


49 posted on 08/02/2014 3:25:05 PM PDT by MaxMax (Pay Attention and you'll be pissed off too! FIRE BOEHNER, NOW!)
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To: MaxMax
I don't know nuthin and you can't prove nuthin.


50 posted on 08/02/2014 3:25:13 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: mylife
Yep, all democrat, all the time.

Former toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner is well-known for his antics and great ideas. Here's one:

Finkbeiner suggested relieving the problem of noise complaints from neighbors of Toledo Express Airport by selling homes nearby at low cost to deaf people.

A few more for amusement, I didn't know he had a wiki page, it didn't refer to his buying a house cheap and having it floated down the Maumee river, though...

51 posted on 08/02/2014 3:29:37 PM PDT by W. (Leftists that elected a ThirdWorldPOS 4 Prez can't bitch 'cause their Prez now craps on them!)
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To: EBH

Yes, produced by cyanobacteria,not algae.....do authorities even really know what they are dealing with?


52 posted on 08/02/2014 3:31:02 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: Kartographer
See the EPA document for info on how to eliminate cyanobacteria related toxins. Powdered activated charcoal and ozone (like a hot tub ozone unit generates) can be used.

EPA factsheet

Also this is an example of why having a well or spring is better than depending on water sourced from a lake or pond.

53 posted on 08/02/2014 3:31:30 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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To: EBH

If they saw it happening, then why didn’t they start killing it off? That is what we do here in the South. Spray it from planes. There are several EPA approved ways to kill off algae.

http://www.ecy.wa.gov/programs/wq/plants/algae/lakes/controloptions.html

Now they have a problem that may take years to get back under control.


54 posted on 08/02/2014 3:32:08 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: W.

Finky Winkerbein sounds like a real rocket scientist.


55 posted on 08/02/2014 3:35:05 PM PDT by mylife
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To: Kirkwood
Now they have a problem that may take years to get back under control.

More likely a matter of days or weeks. At worst, winter will fix it in a hurry.
56 posted on 08/02/2014 3:50:30 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: machogirl

Good question. It almost has to, I would think.


57 posted on 08/02/2014 3:53:04 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: machogirl

Good question. It almost has to, I would think.


58 posted on 08/02/2014 3:53:05 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: mylife

A real barrel of laughs he was, indeed.


59 posted on 08/02/2014 3:57:13 PM PDT by W. (Leftists that elected a ThirdWorldPOS 4 Prez can't bitch 'cause their Prez now craps on them!)
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To: All

found this :

SMALL-SCALE DRINKING WATER PURIFIERS IN THE REMOVAL OF CYANOBACTERIAL TOXINS

Erkki Vuori assoc.prof.

Department of Forensic Medicine, University of Helsinki

The ability of small-scale drinking water purifiers to remove toxins produced by cyanobacteria was studied by contaminating natural waters with neurotoxic Anabaena flos-aquae and hepatotoxic Microcystis aeruginosa or hepatotoxic Nodularia spumigena.

Before each purification experiment, a volume was separated from the contaminated water samples and toxin concentrations of the treated water samples were then compared with concentrations of untreated volumes. The reduction percentages were used to evaluate the efficiency of each purifier.

Water treatment procedures based on filtration (Katadyn R and Stella Meta R) did not remove anatoxin-a and these methods were thus rejected from further experiments.

If granulated activated carbon is included in the treatment procedure (Berkefeld Filter R), removal is possible but the behaviour is unpredictable.

Of all the methods tested reverse osmosis (Freshwater R) was the only method capable of reliably removing anatoxin-a and microcystin.

Simulated vacuum distillation purification experiment with brackish water showed that nodularin did not penetrate the distillate. The use of ineffective drinking water purifiers involves an extra risk since all the purifiers tested could produce clear and suitable water from green and apparently non-potable raw water.”

http://www.nessling.fi/symposiot/Symposio1/vuori.htm


60 posted on 08/02/2014 3:59:30 PM PDT by CharlotteVRWC
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