Water Distributed in Ohio Village After Testing Finds Lead
Source: Associated Press
SEBRING, Ohio Jan 23, 2016, 11:14 AM ET
Volunteers are distributing water this weekend to residents of a northeast Ohio village after tests found lead levels that exceed federal standards.
WFMJ-TV in Youngstown reports the American Red Cross and others distributed bottled water Friday night to some of the 8,100 people affected by elevated levels of lead found in water samples from the Sebring village system.
Sebring is about 60 miles southeast of Cleveland.
Tests showed lead levels at 21 parts per billion in seven homes. The EPA standard is 15 parts per billion.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/water-distributed-ohio-village-testing-finds-lead-36470464
Also:
Jan. 23, 2016 10:21 AM ET
Lead pipes lurk in older neighborhoods across the nation
TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) Lead pipes like the ones that led to contamination of the tap water in Flint, Michigan, carry water into millions of older homes across the U.S. every day, a legacy of an era before scientists realized the severe long-term health consequences of exposure to the heavy metal.
Replacing these buried pipes would be costly in many cases, so chemicals often are added to prevent the plumbing from corroding and leaching lead and other dangerous metals into the drinking water. That's a step authorities in Flint failed to take, for reasons that are being investigated.
Link: http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d281c11a96b4ad082fe88aa0db04305/Article_2016-01-23-US-Infrastructure-Lead-Pipes/id-eddb12390a7741e29d8addef9c1743cb
valerief
(53,235 posts)mountain grammy
(26,568 posts)atreides1
(16,046 posts)Or how it gets rid of those who might vote against them!
redwitch
(14,933 posts)Perhaps we should have been spending our money on basic infrastructure instead of war?
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)SamKnause
(13,037 posts)I live in Ohio.
I have a cistern and I am glad that I do !!!
drm604
(16,230 posts)Our cities have a water infrastructure that grew slowly over time with the growth of the cities and replacing it will be ridiculously expensive.
This is why you can't ignore infrastructure. You can't just keep kicking the problem down the road to the next administration. The longer you put off repairs and replacements, the more expensive it becomes.
Scruffy1
(3,239 posts)I just checked the city's required report for 2014 and it shows less than 3 ppm lead. Either something changed in the water supply, the treatment, or the way the data was accumulated. They get their water from a Sanitary district and it comes from a reservoir. makes one suspect they have been skewing the tests ala Flint, but I have no knowledge of this. An eightfold increase makes no sense.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)from old pipes.
librechik
(30,663 posts)At OUR expense. Cities don't have the resources to do this, we were told.
The US is in a SHITLOAD of trouble with our infrastructures all failing simultaneously while tight fisted cheap labor conservative have a death grip on the budget.
My poor brain is wondering if mass assassination or imprisonment might be a solution.
But I am a nutty person.
UpInArms
(51,252 posts)those may be supplied with water by pipes containing lead -
so you are only a small fraction of safe.
sorry
librechik
(30,663 posts)it hasn't been easy. They updated the main supply line a month or two after we put in our new supply line. Everyone on the block was given notice to replace their supply lines. What a mess.
But we are safe now, presumably. Denver water wins prizes for its quality.
UpInArms
(51,252 posts)only installed in the 60s - and our house only got running water in 1949 - we have replumbed the entire house when we remodeled in the 90s
in a farming community, we worry more about atrizine
packman
(16,296 posts)Lead drinking cups, lead cooking pots, lead just about everywhere.
"Researchers conducted careful analysis of sediment cores from a harbor that once held ancient Rome's water runoff. What they discovered was that yes, the Romans were likely drinking water that had "100 times more lead than local spring waters."
and in the same article-
"historians find significant evidence that the Romans were aware of lead poisoning and took pains to avoid it."
http://io9.gizmodo.com/did-the-roman-empire-really-fall-because-of-lead-in-the-1566197779
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)The Issues With Lead Are Surrounding States in The Great Lakes Region or the Largest Freshwater Resource in the Entire World?
Water is the Blue Gold!
Surface water often contains a lot of chloride:
Using salt on roads can increase the chloride content.
Areas around the Great Lakes often have salt deposits near the surface. NaCl deposits, that is. That can increase surface water chloride ion concentration even more. Other mineral deposits can cause Cl- spikes.
Chloride isn't regulated.
Chloride, furthermore, is often introduced in water treatment facilities.
Water is often tested--depending on the state and jurisdiction--when it leaves the water treatment facility. Lead is often introduced from old pipes and pipe connections, i.e., between the treatment facility and the water user.
So while checking the Pb concentration, check the Cl- concentration. Then consider the age of all the pipe between the water treatment plant and your faucet.
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Just not you. #FYI....