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]
How does this effect the fish?
Is that going to be another disaster?
I wonder if the Feds will use this to open up the FEMA camps?
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.
effective = effect
Could the water be distilled with a home unit and be safe?
Who peed in the reservoir?
The article states it is a toxin from algae growing in Lake Erie.
Well, there’s always beer and wine...
Common core English..
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...
Yes, produced by cyanobacteria,not algae.....do authorities even really know what they are dealing with?
Also this is an example of why having a well or spring is better than depending on water sourced from a lake or pond.
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.
Finky Winkerbein sounds like a real rocket scientist.
Good question. It almost has to, I would think.
Good question. It almost has to, I would think.
A real barrel of laughs he was, indeed.
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
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