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inanna

(3,547 posts)
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 12:37 PM Jan 2016

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
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redwitch

(14,933 posts)
2. Last remaining superpower can't provide clean drinking water to citizens.
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 12:42 PM
Jan 2016

Perhaps we should have been spending our money on basic infrastructure instead of war?

drm604

(16,230 posts)
5. I have a feeling that we're going to be hearing more and more stories like this.
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 01:48 PM
Jan 2016

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)
6. This is very sketchy.
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 01:48 PM
Jan 2016

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)
9. you have to test from your tap because if the city isn't buffering the water- lead leeches out
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 01:59 PM
Jan 2016

from old pipes.

librechik

(30,663 posts)
8. We were the first on our block to replace the lead pipes leading into our home
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 01:53 PM
Jan 2016

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)
10. that only works for the length of your pipes
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 02:12 PM
Jan 2016

those may be supplied with water by pipes containing lead -

so you are only a small fraction of safe.

sorry

librechik

(30,663 posts)
12. no, actually, Denver has great water. And with all the mining in this state
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 02:35 PM
Jan 2016

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)
13. our water supply is rural water that was
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 03:00 PM
Jan 2016

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)
11. The fall of the Roman Empire - the lead theory?
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 02:34 PM
Jan 2016

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)
15. Does It Strike ANYONE FUNNY....
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 04:25 PM
Jan 2016

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!

Igel

(35,191 posts)
16. No.
Sat Jan 23, 2016, 04:43 PM
Jan 2016

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.

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