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GORDON 
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Posted on: Aug. 02 2014,13:23 |
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I'm loving my double filtered well water.
http://www.toledoblade.com/local....ry.html
Sometimes it is a pain to have to maintain my own personal water system.... but then it turns out to be great that I don't rely on some idiotic government agency for water.
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GORDON
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Posted on: Aug. 03 2014,10:57 |
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Just took a drive to the lake to see the pea soup. Â It smells bad, too....
I hope day 2 of giving the kids baths with bottled water is still awesome.
I heard Marcy Kaptur, the local DC Representative, saying Toledo has tried to upgrade their system, but it was "being held up in DC." If that is true then it is probably the EPA, and that's Obama, so the news wont be pursuing that angle.
Edited by GORDON on Aug. 03 2014,10:58
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Malcolm
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Posted on: Aug. 03 2014,11:11 |
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QUOTE He faulted agricultural fertilizer runoff, sewage overflows “up in Michigan,” and other pollution for Toledo’s problem.
Ohio blaming Michigan for its problems? The hell you say.
QUOTE The data from the two city tests, the mayor said, “is very confusing for everyone” -- a key reason why Toledo has sought outside analysis.
“We really don’t have a true answer. One set of tests is different from the other,” he said. “...We don’t know for sure these [city] tests are proof positive, but certainly we’re not taking any risks.”
Wait. Your tests are inconsistent, you don't know how to read them, and there's been a grand total of 2 which is apparently your entire bag of tricks?
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GORDON
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Posted on: Aug. 03 2014,16:01 |
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Have spoken with a couple restaurant owners in Oregon, the city across the river from Toledo. They are having record sales due to nothing in Toledo being open.... People aren't even supposed to cook with the water. Weeeeeeee.
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Malcolm
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Posted on: Aug. 03 2014,16:05 |
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The water is so fucked up that even boiling it won't render it potable?
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"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
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thibodeaux
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Posted on: Aug. 03 2014,17:36 |
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And they call US backward.
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GORDON
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Posted on: Aug. 03 2014,18:39 |
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Toledo is having a rough year. Several level 3 snow emergencies this winter, which means nothing could open, and now this, where nothing can open. Wonder how they will make up the sales tax shortfalls.
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Malcolm
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Posted on: Aug. 03 2014,19:21 |
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QUOTE They say boiling it just concentrates it. Â It isn't anything that needs to be killed... it is a toxin produced by the algae in the lake that is getting sucked into the water system.
The bloom just happened overnight?
QUOTE Wonder how they will make up the sales tax shortfalls.
Jack up other sorts of taxes. And speeding/parking tickets. Or they could implement the controversial "Asshole Tax" but they're worried about chasing away Manziel and LeBron.
Edited by Malcolm on Aug. 03 2014,19:22
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"Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them."
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GORDON
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Posted on: Aug. 03 2014,19:34 |
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(Malcolm @ Aug. 03 2014,22:21)
QUOTE QUOTE They say boiling it just concentrates it. Â It isn't anything that needs to be killed... it is a toxin produced by the algae in the lake that is getting sucked into the water system. The bloom just happened overnight? .
I am not a lake person for the most part so for me this happened overnight. Â I have heard boaters talk about algae blooms in previous summers, though.... they say a mile offshore it is like boating through sludge. Â That is affected by the winds, of course. Â Normally this time of year the winds are from the south pushing it all to Canada. Â Polar Vortices changed the game, I guess. Â
As for the "pollutants from Michigan" thing, my guess is that's bullshit. Â The Maumee River runs right through Toledo into Maumee Bay, where the city of Toledo's water intake is, but first the river runs through thousands of square miles of farmland, all of it draining into that river. Â Toledo dumps their sewage into the Maumee River, I believe upstream of the water intake. Â Into a river already full of so much farm runoff that a drinking water study in Bowling Green, Ohio, approximately 10 miles upstream, was titled, "Fertilizer by the glass." Â We get Detroit's sewer runoff, but I would say the great majority of pollutants are from the Maumee River.
Side note: About a decade ago the State of Ohio built a state park called "Maumee Bay State Park." Â Beaches, nature trails, golf course, camping area, and a massive resort/lodge. Â Obama stayed there twice on his campaigning. Â The water is so nasty that most of the people I know call it "Manure Bay." Â On top of all the other shit coming from Toledo and the Maumee River, you also get the Canadian Goose pollution (each one shits so big it looks like dog shit from a medium/large dog), and seagull shit. Â Bacterial warning signs on the beach are permanent, there.
Anyway, that's northwest Ohio water ecology in a nutshell. Â And the western lake Erie region is about the shallowest the Great Lakes get, which makes it all worse.
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Leisher
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Posted on: Aug. 04 2014,06:47 |
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Crisis over.
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GORDON
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Posted on: Aug. 04 2014,08:22 |
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I found this interesting, pics of the Toledo water intake. They build a whole building around it.
https://www.facebook.com/media....&type=1
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