Re: coal ash disaster

[Guest guest]

Evidently it's not safe if you're a fish.

--penumbra

> Above article about TN coal ash diaster containing mercury, arsenic,

> lead. Officials are saying it's safe to drink the water though dead

> fish are surfacing on the banks.

[Guest guest]

This happened about 45 minutes from my house. I wouldn't drink that

water, no how, no way. I don't believe what they are saying, if the

water samples are truly coming back okay I believe they either aren't

testing the water appropriately or the testing itself is flawed. This

is the region where health workers have told me it borders on some of

the highest cancer rates in the nation, pancreatic being one form.

This is near the site of the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, TN. It

was said by old timers that at least one creek running from the

reservation was called silver creek because there was so much mercury

in it when the cattle would stand/drink in it they would turn silver.

Thankfully for me, the water is downstream. Unfortunately for many,

the water is their source for drinking/bathing/cooking. If I lived

there, I would be buying bottled water from Knoxville, upstream of the

mess.

Debi in Knoxville

>

> Evidently it's not safe if you're a fish.

>

> --penumbra

>

> > Above article about TN coal ash diaster containing mercury, arsenic,

> > lead. Officials are saying it's safe to drink the water though

dead

> > fish are surfacing on the banks.

>

[Guest guest]

Debi, where is Nashville in relation to this disaster?

> >

> > Evidently it's not safe if you're a fish.

> >

> > --penumbra

> >

> > > Above article about TN coal ash diaster containing mercury,

arsenic,

> > > lead. Officials are saying it's safe to drink the water

though

> dead

> > > fish are surfacing on the banks.

> >

>

[Guest guest]

The ash is flowed into the Clinch River. The Clinch River empties into

the TN River. It empties downstream from Knoxville, anyone living

there, Chattanooga, Alabama, Mississippi, and then back to Middle TN,

may wanna check water. It is being said TVA will test wells for free,

don't know to what point, or if you would want to trust their findings.

http://www.knoxnews.com/photos/2008/dec/30/44982/

Anyone living on the TN River is probably at a reduced level of

concern. I don't know enough about water quality, testing, etc to know

when these heavy metals are dissipated enough to not be a concern.

Below is a Wiki article explaining the flow of the TN River. I do

know that the local school system near the ash spill is reporting they

will only used bottled water at the school, despite insisting the

water is fine. Sounds like double-talk if I ever heard it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_River#Course

The Tennessee River is formed at the confluence of the Holston and

French Broad Rivers on the east side of Knoxville, Tennessee. From

Knoxville, it flows southwest through East Tennessee toward

Chattanooga before crossing into Alabama. It loops through northern

Alabama and eventually forms a small part of the state's border with

Mississippi, before returning to Tennessee. At this point, it defines

the boundary between Tennessee's other two regions—Middle and West

Tennessee. The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway, a U.S. Army Corps of

Engineers project providing navigation on the Tombigbee River and a

link to the Port of Mobile, enters Tennessee near the

Tennessee-Alabama-Mississippi boundary. This waterway reduces the

navigation distance from Tennessee, north Alabama, and northern

Mississippi to the Gulf of Mexico by hundreds of miles. The final part

of the Tennessee's run is in Kentucky, where it separates the

Purchase from the rest of the state. It then flows into the Ohio River

at Paducah, Kentucky. It is one of a very few rivers in the United

States which leave a state and then re-enter it; the Cumberland River

is another such river.

Debi