Posted on 07/25/2016 5:26:46 AM PDT by daniel1212
...the dangers are mainly for 534,000 Massachusetts residents who draw their water from private wells, the report found. Unlike public water systems, wells are not subject to state and federal testing and treatment requirements...
Environmental advocates said they worry whether the department is up to the job of regulating the water supply....“The DEP really needs to beef up its ground water monitoring.”
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonglobe.com ...
ALL water is ‘corrosive’................................
That’s what my HS chemistry teacher said back in the late 60’s early 70’s. Water is the closest thing to a ‘universal solvent’ there is. It can dissolve mountains............................
A lot of groundwater in Massachusetts has Manganese in it. It is corrosive for some plumbing fittings leading to pin hole leaks in faucets. However, Manganese is not a problem in drinking water unless you are having your infants (< 1 year old) consume large amounts of tap water.
Note, orange juice has manganese and many vitamin supplements contain manganese!
Getting rid of manganese in the water is very expensive. My town put in a water treatment plant primarily for iron and manganese, courtesy of the State EPA. $12 million for 2000 customers and we now have the most expensive water in Massachusetts.
It would have been far far cheaper to give families with newborns or those with compromised liver functioning vouchers for bottled water. But then there wouldn’t be the make work jobs and unneeded construction contracts.
Another “Follow the Money” story.
They own the rivers, now they want to own our wells.
The problem is likely to be real and substantial and to have been neglected by government in favor of more flashy causes like global warming and drawing LGBTQ teens into environmental work. For what it’s worth, well water regulatory types tend to be matter of fact country types who try to help the public and prefer not to threaten or impose fines. They are unlikely to generate or support regulatory overreach.
All water is corrosive.
Next silly bit?
Water tables in gniess/granite matrix are naturally acidic. Copper fittings will corrode over time and require replacement.
In other news, the Sun continues to rise in the East.
EPA takeover of groundwater
Actually, control of water, private or otherwise, is a UN agenda 23 issue. They also want meters on private wells, and control of all natural resources, globally.
It’s been a couple of years, but the last time I looked, Agenda 23 was still on the UN website. Agenda 23 is also what’s behind the gun control issues.
Mr. Mercat and I are moving to a farm with a private well. I’ll use the water and probably drink it occasionally but plan to drink bottled water a lot. I already do. I do like having the private water source though. We could, without a lot of trouble, go off the grid entirely although I must have my internet. LOL
I don’t know. SOMETHING must be in the water to make them vote and think like they do up there.
How good can any river water be after hundreds of miles of farm field chemicals drain into it and countless towns dump their treated sewerage into it?
Well water doesn’t sound so bad after that.
A few years ago our rural town developed water districts. Our district has 23 households. We now each have to pay $800 per year added to our tax bills for forty years for the construction of the system. We have the choice whether to connect it to the house. Going rate for connecting via private contractor was about $2500. The golf course road, taking 1/3 the length of our road, was exempt. Grants were obtained for certain water districts, some residents being more equal than others. Areas with reliable rat voting patterns have the grants.
Well my city has been spending millions to replace the pipes because of the lead. Of course this means all the streets have to be repaved to. Did I mention we have a $6 million deficit?
Just look at the cancer rates on cape Cod
How many of them SMOKE ?
Any homebuyer who purchases a home with well water and does not have it tested or obtain the results of a recent test is a flat-out fool.
Pretty much all water ends up being corrosive. This is a leftist power grab and nothing less.
Stony Brook, which ran through our back yard in MA (and which forms Stony Brook Nature Preserve a couple of miles downstream) was strongly acidic.
I built a "live box" of heavy, galvanized hardware cloth for keeping fish alive in the stream overnight -- when I came in too late (or too "beat") from fishing to feel like cleaning them that night. After a couple of months in the stream, the thing completely fell apart...
That's what I call, "corrosive"! And even the town-supplied water would destroy a hot water-dispensing faucet in just about a year...
But, like "global warming", the effect is natural -- not human-caused. There simply is no natural mechanism available to balance the pH...
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The "go public source" shtick is a crock! MA is a mess of contiguous, tiny townships -- none of which have the money or expertise to install and maintain acid-neutralization systems in their waterworks. And, even if they did, there is aways the risk of overburdening the resulting water with Sodium or Calcium ions resulting from the neutralization reaction...
IMHO, payback for advocating "Big Government Knows Best!" should be the choice between, "GTHOoT" or a "beauty spot" between the eyes...
Naturally ... can't have people living independently of the government, now. That's just unacceptable.
You were doing fine until the last line, and now you are in hot water. Please report to your nearest reeducation center...
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