Lead in your water

[JohnnySavage]

When local codes require that you are hooked to the municipal water system, it's reasonable to expect that the water will be safe to drink. But, isn't lead easily removed with a filter? Why all the feet dragging? The water authority should just put a filter on everyone's supply line.


Also - Lead is a long term problem for the snot blowers that drink it. For adults; meh... and there's no problem showing in water that's contaminated in these relatively low levels. The fake news media acts like cyanide is coming out of the faucet.



...coulda been a blurt but I haven't done my duty in pushing the BB threads off the front page in a while.

 

[Lancecastor]

Is it true that leaded water is easier on older hearts, but leads to hair loss?

 

[phrodeau]

I got some lead in my pencil this AM.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Municipal authorities would go broke putting filters on end of use taps.

For many many years houses had plumbing using standard 50/50 tin/lead solder. Only in the last 20 or so has there been a switch to 95/5 or lead free solders which previously had only found a use in food grade operations.

https://www.copper.org/environment/water/e_p_lead.html

Since the Safe Drinking Water Act Amendments of 1986 the use of lead-containing solders in potable water systems has effectively been banned nationwide. The major impact of the Act has been on solder containing 50% tin and 50% lead (50-50), until then the most widely used solder for drinking water systems.

The basis for the public health concern is the maximum contaminant level (MCL) for lead in drinking water established by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). EPA has set this MCL at 50 parts per billion for drinking water. This is a very tiny amount of contamination by lead - .000005%. The practical result of this extremely low limit is that some drinking waters which are soft, acidic and have low alkalinity can pick up (leach out) this much lead from any solder which is exposed to the water inside the plumbing system. Studies by EPA and others have shown that in the rare instances where conditions are such that lead pick-up occurs, it generally tapers off to a low level quickly after a new plumbing system is put into use, and also that it is almost always associated with long periods of stagnation of the soft, acidic water inside the plumbing system.

Lead pick-up can be avoided by treating a soft, acidic, low alkalinity water to make it non-aggressive. MCL's are enforceable at the consumer's water faucet. EPA's position is that the water supplier is responsible for the lead content at that point, even though the lead is picked up from the plumbing system within the home or other building. EPA believes that the water supplier should provide water that is non-aggressive with respect to plumbing systems. In some communities (e.g., Seattle, Washington), this obligation has been recognized and public water supplies are treated with lime or soda ash to control pH and alkalinity and insure against lead pick-up in the system.

8but just wait, the EPA is about to be gutted, so this should be a non-winnable issue very soon*

 

[JohnnySavage]

Municipal authorities would go broke putting filters on end of use taps.

It'd be cheaper then replacing all the lines, and solve the problem right away.

 

[Disgustipated]

It'd be cheaper then replacing all the lines, and solve the problem right away.

It's cheaper until one of the hillbillies sues the City for their sister-wife using the filter as a maxi-pad.

 

[Hard_Rom]

It'd be cheaper then replacing all the lines, and solve the problem right away.

Go broke slightly or in a big way? Still a broke municipal authority. Always jack water rates up to pay for it.

London Hydro had to jack up hydro rates because folk were conserving so much that the authority was losing money and could not pay upkeep on infrastructure. There is no win-win!

 

[phrodeau]

The people of Flint MI are refusing to pay their water bills because of the lead content. So the city doesn't have the money to fix the problem.

Hillary Clinton talked about solutions. Donald Trump cracked jokes.

 

[Maidboy]

Filtering out lead and other toxins at the source and/or pumping stations is much
less expensive than at individual taps. Economy of scale and all that.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

I was born and almost raised in the midwest with city water, copper, lead, and galvanized steel pipes. I survived to retire at 55.
We moved to NW Florida right between two of the largest free flowing springs in the USA. For 23 years we had our own well using PVC pipe and two filters. We still lived mostly free of illnesses.
Old age caused us to move back to the midwest and have the same city water as when I was growing up. The difference is we are now much farther from the city well. From what I was told galvanized steel and PVC pipes run all over town and to our house. From there we have PVC pipe, a filter, and a water softener for all but drinking water.

I still have most of my hair and my heart is better than it was a few years ago. My pencil must have been an old Papermate because it's mostly leadfree.
As before, our water looks, smells, and tastes good. In fact it's no different than our Florida spring well water.
We proved that years ago by bring some back for our snooty sister in law to taste. They have to have the Culligan man. We put our well water in Zepherhills, Fl bottled water bottles.
After all, much of the bottle water you drink comes from Florida springs right next to cattle farms.

We rarely drink bottled water

 

[BotanyBoy]

The people of Flint MI are refusing to pay their water bills because of the lead content. So the city doesn't have the money to fix the problem.

Sucks for those morons.

Hillary Clinton talked about solutions. Donald Trump cracked jokes.

That I'm sure one of her billionaire buddies would be happy to implement for an astro-fuckin' -nomical fee.

 

[Maidboy]

Sucks for those morons.

Water contamination has been known to cause genetic mutations in fish and amphibious creatures such as frogs. That sucks big time. My condolences.

 

[thør]

The people of Flint MI are refusing to pay their water bills because of the lead content. So the city doesn't have the money to fix the problem.

Hillary Clinton talked about solutions. Donald Trump cracked jokes.

Isn't that a state government problem?

 

[Hard_Rom]

Years ago they closed down a spring near here. Heavy metal contamination. Bog only knows how many folk drank from that spring for a few generations anyways.

I never drink bottled water. Fuck gas a very heavily value added commodity is cheaper. I remember when folk laughed at yuppies and their bottled water.

Bottled water brought to you by the manufacturers of plastic bags looking to diversify in the face of lost business. It's the bottle they are selling.

 

[thør]

Years ago they closed down a spring near here. Heavy metal contamination. Bog only knows how many folk drank from that spring for a few generations anyways.

I never drink bottled water. Fuck gas a very heavily value added commodity is cheaper. I remember when folk laughed at yuppies and their bottled water.

Bottled water brought to you by the manufacturers of plastic bags looking to diversify in the face of lost business. It's the bottle they are selling.

I laugh at the idea of buying water surrounded by petroleum.

 

[Maidboy]

Isn't that a state government problem?

Having a POTUS who laughs about lead contaminated drinking water is everyone's problem.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Water contamination has been known to cause genetic mutations in fish and amphibious creatures such as frogs. That sucks big time. My condolences.

Well good thing I don't depend on the shit government for clean water like most.

Having a POTUS who laughs about lead contaminated drinking water is everyone's problem.

No.....you just desperately wish it was.

 

[magicalmoments]

The ruling classes of ancient Rome used lead tainted water, didn't seem to do them any harm. Have another guzzle.

 

[KingOrfeo]

The ruling classes of ancient Rome used lead tainted water, didn't seem to do them any harm. Have another guzzle.

There's a theory that their use of lead water pipes played a role in the Empire's fall.

 

[phrodeau]

Rome had lead plumbing, but that doesn't mean they were ingesting lead from their water. Flint has had lead pipes for decades, but their water met lead level requirements until the water source changed, and the water started collecting more lead from their pipes.

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

The ruling classes of ancient Rome used lead tainted water, didn't seem to do them any harm. Have another guzzle.

Yea, but are't those Romans all dead now?

Spring water is usually fine. The plastic bottles, especially left in the sun, are bad.
We've drank, drunk, gulped lots of spring and creek water. Always make sure the cattle farm is down stream.

 

[Maidboy]

Well good thing I don't depend on the shit government for clean water like most.

I guess being pond scum has its advantages.

 

[Hard_Rom]

Lead being the cause of the fall of the Roman Empire has been debunked. There is reason to believe that there were health issue though from lead poisoning. Gout apparently can be gotten through lead intake. The Romans got more lead from cooking in lead vessels and adding lead acetone as wine sweetener than from water pipes.

We drink the lake water north of Sudbury after just a good filtering down to 5 or 10 microns. Or add a shot of Scotch to a half a glass of water.

Any water drank out of Georgian Bay had to be boiled. Too many seagulls around.

The Great Lakes as a water source is very handy. Lots of volume to water down pollutants.

 

[Bert Notorius]

sugar in your tea.