Posted on 08/02/2014 2:08:10 PM PDT by machogirl
Governor John Kasich has issued a state of emergency for Lucas County and surrounding communities due to algae toxins detected in the water during routine testing.
Do not drink the water. Alternative water should be used for drinking, making infant formula, making ice, brushing teeth and preparing food. Pets should not drink the water.
Do not boil the water.. Boiling the water will not destroy the toxins. It will increase the concentration of the toxins.
Consuming water containing algal toxins may result in abnormal liver function, diarrhea, vomiting, nausea, numbness or dizziness. Seek medical attention if you feel you have been exposed to algal toxins and are having adverse health effects. Skin contact with contaminated water can cause irritation or rashes. Contact a veterinarian immediately if pets or livestock show signs of illness.
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I live in NE Ohio roughly 5 miles from Lake Erie. There is no threat here or anywhere else in Ohio at this time. The problen is local to the Toledo area.
Take this any way you want, but I sure as heck hope they are! The world is pretty much on fire these days. Between Putin...ISIS...Ebola...you do know Benghazi fell to the terrorists just last week? Right? Plus our own 'open SW border'...geesh...I sure do hope they are ramping up for "something." Too bad I just don't trust that it is anything in our best, defensive interests....
Well, shucks!
What to do?
Thank you very much!!
Appreciate it!!
Glad to help.
Here we go. I hope we are all prepared, should this turn into the main event.
Consider all the items of interest happening around the world right now, specifically as those impact the USA. Remember, too, that our military is woefully inadequate to protect us from a concerted effort to destroy us.
Might want to add golf courses... Residential areas. Crops...
I don’t trust them either, and with the “skin-tint” warfare and “class” warfare this Administration has engaged in, I’m not sure I’d trust their shipments of supplies.
I agree with you.
I live just out of the restricted zone. This almost blame on the livestock/farmers/fields has me concerned. Not that those factors aren’t part of the problem, but why hasn’t it ALWAYS been a major problem? Why did this particular issue get pushed to the forefront following the EPA’s visit last week? Are they saying that the run off from fertilized landscapes and yards isn’t a factor? and as you stated: golf courses? Shoot, Ottawa Hills alone could supply a crop field with nitrogen.
Probably just the right combination of rain, lack of rain, runoff and temperature. It has been COLDER than usual for this time of year over this past week.
That’s a lot of water. Then throw in millions more as “refugees” and we have a big problem.
Around here, they use “non-potable” (treated sewage water) to water parks, golf courses, shopping mall grass, lakes in subdivisions.
- Barack Hussein Ebola “relieved himself” over Cleveland...
I now live in NE Ohio, 3 miles from Lake Erie...no real algae problems in the Lorain/Cleveland/Mentor area. IMHO, weather is DEFINITELY the biggest culprit here, along with the topography (or whatever you call it) of the Erie coastline in Ohio...the western Maumee bay basin is the shallowest in the lake, and I read in the paper today that prevailing NE winds had pretty much kept the Bay water and algae in place along the shore there.
In comparison, there's much more "open water" across the lake the further East you go. I also read that Cleveland's water intake plants are much better than Toledo's, although I'm not sure that's true...and even with adequate treatment facilities, more important is how far out and how deep into the lake the water intake pipes can go.
Toledo folks, hang in there!! Or come East for a few days! Ohioans are resilient...and welcoming...praying this Toledo crisis is resolved SOON, and correctly...
- excellent
- I hear screams in the White Hut already
The fascist pro corporate philosophy is coming to you. As an example I and many others have good well water that we treat and filter. It is there when we need it without government chemicals being added.
Big utilities that own our local pols now want us to give up our private well water and spend lots of money to connect and make them richer. They can then own the aquifer and sell it back to us. No thanks.
Freedom, what’s that? Americans need to wake up that the corruption by the corporatist few is stripping us of freedom.
I'd consider distillation to be safe. Any reverse-osmosis setup for desalination should work as well, but that's a guess.
Most camping/backpacking water filters are set up for making creek water into drinking water, think dirt and bacteria. If your creek has this toxin in it, it will go right thru the best filter. That's what happened to the city of Toledo.
There was some research presented a few years back on using activated charcoal to help to capture this toxin as part of a membrane filtration system (think utility-scale, not something you can do at home) but I cannot find any followup to that research.
If I were in Toledo, I wouldn't be much longer.
Thanks, my family is in a different area, Stark co, and on well water.
I agree. To control “the people”, they need to control the basics of life.
...and global warming.
Look for PETA and the Sierra Club to run on ad using this to scare up more fundraising.
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