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17 Jun 08 - 01:50 PM (#2367962) Subject: BS: contaminated tap water mystery From: Donuel The said that northern MD had bad water and shut down boy scout camps and restaurants yet Siver Spring and Rockville restaurants, bakeries and even grocery stores are without water. The news said there is low pressure but the pressureis fine. The news says check with the sanitation dept yet the sanitation dept says watch for news updates. Rumors have it that a main broke in a Muncaster road forest and near Georgia Ave. ?? The only thing we are told for certain is boil the water. The affected areas seem to be all over the map. I did a poll once (btw I believer all poll are bull shit) and asked if people wanted to know if the water they used was poisonous. .... Most people did not want to know. |
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17 Jun 08 - 04:30 PM (#2368144) Subject: RE: BS: contaminated tap water mystery From: Bee They didn't want to know, in all likelihood, because most people's water, given a stringent enough analysis, can be found to contain miniscule and likely harmless amounts of various poisons, toxins, bacteria, etc. Around here, most wells contain small amounts of arsenic because of the rock they are in. The lake I get my water from is very clean, but fish live and poop in it, therefore it contains fishy coliform bacteria. This is unlikely to harm me, but the law sez sterilize it. Common sense, my boy, common sense. In a flood situation, where all sorts of really nasty water-polluting events might be going on, the sensible person boils his water. It would be impossible to instantly update, for example, when a sewer line might have broken. |
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17 Jun 08 - 06:06 PM (#2368243) Subject: RE: BS: contaminated tap water mystery From: jeffp Not much mystery. http://www.nbc4.com/news/16627311/detail.html?dl=mainclick will take you to one of many stories about the problem. Read a newspaper or watch the local news. |
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17 Jun 08 - 06:16 PM (#2368254) Subject: RE: BS: contaminated tap water mystery From: Bill D We found the map online, Don http://www.wsscwater.com/. You & I live 'just' below the official danger area. We are being careful anyway. |
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17 Jun 08 - 06:23 PM (#2368258) Subject: RE: BS: contaminated tap water mystery From: Bill D I have no idea how they draw the map, but we are just a few blocks outside the problem area. If I remember correctly, you are right on the line. |
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17 Jun 08 - 06:31 PM (#2368266) Subject: RE: BS: contaminated tap water mystery From: Bill D Yes....I see you are about the same distance inside the 'safe' zone as I am....about 6 blocks at the closest. |
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17 Jun 08 - 09:16 PM (#2368382) Subject: RE: BS: contaminated tap water mystery From: Amos The real stroy, only touched on here, is the relative age of the infrastructure. Some pipes and buried conduits in your region are over 100 years old, especially in the oldest parts of the drainage systems. A |
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17 Jun 08 - 09:40 PM (#2368388) Subject: RE: BS: contaminated tap water mystery From: Bill D Yes...and after YEARS of benign neglect, they decided to raise our rates a LOT...suddenly...to pay for repairs. They tried to also impose a heavy monthly surcharge....but the commission wisely refused to allow them to hit the poor with that one! |
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18 Jun 08 - 02:59 AM (#2368481) Subject: RE: BS: contaminated tap water mystery From: Liz the Squeak It's very confusing to be told one thing by one department and then another by a different department, none of whom appear to know what is going on. The discrepancies you mention in your first post may come from the possibility that you are on a different ring main than those premises that have been forced to close. An example of this is my own area. When the power goes out on my side of the road, the other side, though only a couple of dozen feet away, remains lit. If your water supply is not coming from the affected area, authorities will consider you to be 'OK' and concentrate their efforts on those areas that are supplied from contaminated sources. Good luck, and keep taking the tablets! LTS |
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18 Jun 08 - 10:14 AM (#2368794) Subject: RE: BS: contaminated tap water mystery From: Ebbie People, taken in chunks, can be amazing. In Alaska we got a FRANK initiative on the ballot requiring the state before anything was finalized to ascertain what it would cost in actual dollars to move the capital from Juneau to Willow. The measure passed but 68,000 people voted NO, we don't need to know. |
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18 Jun 08 - 12:06 PM (#2368911) Subject: RE: BS: contaminated tap water mystery From: GUEST,leeneia My husband is a scientist who often has to attend public hearings. He has been taught that people absorb about 20% of information in written form. Therefore, simply writing good reports is not enough. He has to stand up at the hearing, say it clearly, say it over and over, and be prepared to ask questions from those who paid no attention earlier. No doubt the 68,000 people who voted NO glanced at the question, saw that spending money was involved somehow, and voted against. There are plenty of instances on the Mudcat where it is clear that a person posting didn't read the first post at all carefully. For example, somebody asks for chords and gets lyrics, etc. |
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18 Jun 08 - 12:12 PM (#2368917) Subject: RE: BS: contaminated tap water mystery From: Bill D Reminds me of the OLD adage about 'teaching freshmen' in college...(and probably in 27 other situations) "Tell 'em what you're gonna tell 'em. Tell 'em. Tell 'em you told 'em." |
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18 Jun 08 - 12:23 PM (#2368925) Subject: RE: BS: contaminated tap water mystery From: Donuel MYSTERY SOLVED this is priceless The reason why the initial alert message was slow and confused was because the two people in charge of emergency email alerts and media co ordination were both out of town. The person they put in charge had not been trained to run the computer. I assume the person did know how to pick up a phone. |
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18 Jun 08 - 12:24 PM (#2368927) Subject: RE: BS: contaminated tap water mystery From: Donuel npr said the 3 people respondsible for water emergency alerts will not be disciplined. |