Toxic Algae in Lake Erie shut down water supplies in nearby cities
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By the way... This does not surprise me at all. In Buffalo and Rochester, you tend to have entire ports and harbors that are cut off from the lake thanks to toxic chemical spills from the 1950's. Hell, Tifft Nature Preserve has so much chemical dropout in a few of the lakes that you are actually disallowed from even standing within fifty feet of certain water ways.
Then you have the radioactive waste that's buried in Cattaragus Creek which was commented as being, "Not worthy of tax payer dollars" (I hope you fucking get burned alive Bloomberg/Cuomo), and several small towns and villages along Lake Erie which are contaminated and require some serious medical clearances to enter and work in. Cannot remember the exact one in Buffalo, but it was closed down due to massive medical quarantines since the 1980's, and only recently has people like my father been allowed to go in with hazzmatt to set up generators for workers.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;45580739]By the way... This does not surprise me at all. In Buffalo and Rochester, you tend to have entire ports and harbors that are cut off from the lake thanks to toxic chemical spills from the 1950's. Hell, Tifft Nature Preserve has so much chemical dropout in a few of the lakes that you are actually disallowed from even standing within fifty feet of certain water ways.
Then you have the radioactive waste that's buried in Cattaragus Creek which was commented as being, "Not worthy of tax payer dollars" (I hope you fucking get burned alive Bloomberg/Cuomo), and several small towns and villages along Lake Erie which are contaminated and require some serious medical clearances to enter and work in. Cannot remember the exact one in Buffalo, but it was closed down due to massive medical quarantines since the 1980's, and only recently has people like my father been allowed to go in with hazzmatt to set up generators for workers.[/QUOTE]
Isn't the algae a natural occurance though? I mean I understand your analogy when it comes to water safety checks and whatnot but this, to my knowledge, was not a manmade chemical pollution incident.
my knowledge is most likely incredibly mistaken though so do excuse me if I was wrong in questioning this.
The blooms for the algae are manmade to a degree as they naturally do not occur that often. In this case they are being spiked by the amount of food and artificial resources being put into the water by nearby farmland. Zebra Mussels, all though the most hated species of Lake Erie, tend to keep the waters clean of this shit.
[QUOTE=JoeSkylynx;45580842]The blooms for the algae are manmade to a degree as they naturally do not occur that often. In this case they are being spiked by the amount of food and artificial resources being put into the water by nearby farmland. Zebra Mussels, all though the most hated species of Lake Erie, tend to keep the waters clean of this shit.[/QUOTE]
Huh, interesting. So is there any solution to that?
[QUOTE=lifehole;45580988]Huh, interesting. So is there any solution to that?[/QUOTE]
Wait for cold weather or zebra mussles to deal with it. The other method is scrubbing the coastlines.
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[QUOTE=Grimhound;45581468]Photo via Reddit.
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You'd be forgiven for mistaking it for a pile of Play-Doh if you didn't know what it was.
Oh god, people on facebook/twitter are blaming it on a Republican conspiracy and/or Obama
I guess Crisis's bring out the worse and the dumbest in people.
[QUOTE=Captain Kep;45581739]Oh god, people on facebook/twitter are blaming it on a Republican conspiracy and/or Obama
I guess Crisis's bring out the worse and the dumbest in people.[/QUOTE]
But isn't it standard operating procedure to blame Obama and the republicans for everything? [/sarcasm]
[QUOTE=Captain Kep;45581739]Oh god, people on facebook/twitter are blaming it on a Republican conspiracy and/or Obama
I guess Crisis's bring out the worse and the dumbest in people.[/QUOTE]
No. This is a biblical plague for the US turning its back on Israel. Get it right.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;45575791]Is wellwater not an option in some of those areas?[/QUOTE]
Who the fuck still has a functioning well?
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;45585173]Who the fuck still has a functioning well?[/QUOTE]
yo
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;45585173]Who the fuck still has a functioning well?[/QUOTE]
Anyone who doesn't live in a metropolitan area?
The rural areas around Washington state are chock full of them. I personally know at least a dozen or so people who have a well. :v:
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;45585173]Who the fuck still has a functioning well?[/QUOTE]
My grandpa's house has well water. It makes my sister's hair really wavy, it's weird.
My mom has friends and family in Toledo. I hope they're gonna be okay.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;45585173]Who the fuck still has a functioning well?[/QUOTE]
Most ppls who live in the country...
I live in a smallish town and though the water is treated its source is a well (3 wells actually)
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;45585173]Who the fuck still has a functioning well?[/QUOTE]
Who the fuck drinks city water?
That shit's nasty.
[QUOTE=ZakkShock;45571747]...Why can't you boil it?[/QUOTE]
While boiling water kills bacteria, it doesn't remove toxins. Those are completely different things.
And in the case of these particular algae, they release even more toxins when boiled to death :v:
[QUOTE=Gmod4ever;45585353]Anyone who doesn't live in a metropolitan area?
The rural areas around Washington state are chock full of them. I personally know at least a dozen or so people who have a well. :v:[/QUOTE]
I live in a small town in PA and I don't know anyone with a functioning well.
It's unnerving how quickly it all falls apart when we don't have any water to drink.
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