Comments on: Nothing like having a chalkstream in your backyard http://singlebarbed.com/2010/01/13/nothing-like-having-a-chalkstream-in-your-backyard/ Fly fishing and fly tying for anything that bites Wed, 23 May 2012 19:31:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: John Peipon http://singlebarbed.com/2010/01/13/nothing-like-having-a-chalkstream-in-your-backyard/comment-page-1/#comment-5371 John Peipon Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:32:54 +0000 http://singlebarbed.com/?p=5153#comment-5371 Bingo! That acceptable PPM conc. should be public record. If your local water utility is not forthcoming,go to your Dept. of Environmental Protection and find out why you can't get the info you want. Invoke the Freedom of Information Act, and if you still get stone walled, call your Representative or Senator. You would not believe what we go through here to comply with regs at all levels. The paper work, the care in the field, the bureaucracy and the number of "functionaries" never seems to decrease. And the risk, nationwide, seems to be growing as well. Stick a fork in me, I think I'm done! Bingo!
That acceptable PPM conc. should be public record. If your local water utility is not forthcoming,go to your Dept. of Environmental Protection and find out why you can’t get the info you want. Invoke the Freedom of Information Act, and if you still get stone walled, call your Representative or Senator.
You would not believe what we go through here to comply with regs at all levels. The paper work, the care in the field, the bureaucracy and the number of “functionaries” never seems to decrease. And the risk, nationwide, seems to be growing as well.

Stick a fork in me, I think I’m done!

]]> By: KBarton10 http://singlebarbed.com/2010/01/13/nothing-like-having-a-chalkstream-in-your-backyard/comment-page-1/#comment-5370 KBarton10 Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:17:57 +0000 http://singlebarbed.com/?p=5153#comment-5370 It's a mixture of both, John. All of the elements cited in the above article exist in the report, but I was unable to find the state's acceptable PPM concentrations to determine how far above them my local numbers are. All the minerals cited were in excess of state standards. The Boron and asbestos are naturally occurring, as is the Mercury - my creek hosts the nations largest toxic superfund site for Mercury. Ditto for the toxic algae bloom and ecoli. Ecoli is usally linked to animals and farm hands, but they've a new source not yet identified. It wasn't me ... It’s a mixture of both, John.

All of the elements cited in the above article exist in the report, but I was unable to find the state’s acceptable PPM concentrations to determine how far above them my local numbers are.

All the minerals cited were in excess of state standards. The Boron and asbestos are naturally occurring, as is the Mercury – my creek hosts the nations largest toxic superfund site for Mercury.

Ditto for the toxic algae bloom and ecoli. Ecoli is usally linked to animals and farm hands, but they’ve a new source not yet identified.

It wasn’t me …

]]> By: John Peipon http://singlebarbed.com/2010/01/13/nothing-like-having-a-chalkstream-in-your-backyard/comment-page-1/#comment-5369 John Peipon Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:34:47 +0000 http://singlebarbed.com/?p=5153#comment-5369 I work for a water utility, and WE are proud of our local water quality. I hope that this is mostly black humor, but the specter of groundwater contamination should be more apparent to everyone. I will be saddened on the day that my state or the Fed mandates more chemistry or mechanical refining because the hidden toxins have reached proscribed levels. Most civilians just want the water to come out of the tap, preferably for free! They don't realize that most of the cost of utility water is distribution and treatment. Heads are in the sand. Most folks don't even realize that they could be only three days from death. Haiti. My worse scenario is a U. S. national disaster. "When in question, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!" I work for a water utility, and WE are proud of our local water quality.

I hope that this is mostly black humor, but the specter of groundwater contamination should be more apparent to everyone. I will be saddened on the day that my state or the Fed mandates more chemistry or mechanical refining because the hidden toxins have reached proscribed levels.

Most civilians just want the water to come out of the tap, preferably for free! They don’t realize that most of the cost of utility water is distribution and treatment. Heads are in the sand. Most folks don’t even realize that they could be only three days from death. Haiti.

My worse scenario is a U. S. national disaster. “When in question, when in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout!”

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