Note this article is by by the liberal organ, the Boston Globe,
The article reports that residents with private wells are advised to switch to the public supply, if possible.
Tomorrow Maura Healey will announce that private wells are illegal as of Wednesday.
General Ripper was on to something.
The picture is of a ground water pond? It is by definition surface water. Do they mean, filled by ground water? This is just another tightening of the noose with regard to getting everyone dependent on government.
Water is either corrosive or scale-forming. (Ryzner Stability Index). This is sort of like saying water us wet so “watch out.” People who don’t know anything should have to pass a test to be a “journalist.”
Just look at the cancer rates on cape Cod. You coldn’t pay me to live in Taxachussets. Move to New Hampshire, or Texas!
And they are crazy enough there to elect Pocahontis.
The gubmint wants to control everything - if they can control it, they can regulate it, and if they can regulate it they can fine you or force you to pay a fee or tax on it. With government it’s always about the Benjamin’s. Every time.
“The article reports that residents with private wells are advised to switch to the public supply, if possible.”
What a joke.
Money grab by the MWRA.
Most expensive water in the world.
[He advised residents with private wells to switch to the public supply, if possible.
“It’s safer,” he said, although how much safer depends on how well and often the water is tested and treated.]
Talk about fear mongering. Water in areas where there is a lot of granite instead of limestone tends to have a lower PH. We have that here. Just flush the pipes for a few minutes if the water has set in them for hours.
I would drink my well water any day over the sewage mixed chlorinated reservoir water.
I often tell people that during dry spells, the only makeup water flowing into the reservoirs around here is treated sewage blasted with chlorine.
Are the DBM and Rats going to hold Gov. Baker responsible for this as they did Gov. Snyder over the Flint, MI water problems?
Water, it’s nasty stuff, causes corrosion, and is the most universal solvent known, more universal than any petrochemical solvent. Bad, bad stuff, water.
This could explain some of the insane voting patterns of Massachusetts.
Electing Fat Dead Teddy Kennedy, Elizabeth Fauxahontas Warren, Ed Markey, sounds like lead or other toxic substances in the bloodstream on a massive scale.
couldn't stop ranting!
I guess water, as a chemical, could be considered “corrosive” just like oxygen, as a chemical, could be considered “corrosive”.
Public water supply?
Ha!
How many millions that the states and towns don’t have would it take to extend those lines?
Even our corrupt CT governor hasn’t been crazy enough to run water lines out into the middle of nowhere.
They want them on public supply. The company that does the water is likely a big donor to the dems. Can't control the water to the masses if they have their own wells.
BTW, I have a well and it has water that is actually cleaner, out of the well, than any city water could be. I live in CT. If I ever move losing that water will truly suck.
ALL water is ‘corrosive’................................
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?