Toxic Chemical Traced Back To Allentown's Sewage

A number of people might have read our local media's coverage but 'politico' went into much greater detail. For anyone interested I highly recommend reading the following article. It's so much more complete

politico.com
How a toxic chemical ended up in the drinking water supply for 13 million people "New Jersey’s largest drinking water supplier discovered a toxic chemical in the river where it gets water for hundreds of thousands of customers, setting off a major search for polluters that led back to a Pennsylvania wastewater treatment plant and a South Jersey company."

The reason for me posting this is to make people aware although water treatment plants process and treat water's hundreds of chemicals, thousands more are not required by the EPA.

Few drinking water treatment plants are not located downstream from other cities waste water treatment facilities. The further downstream one is located the greater chance more chemicals will be introduced into the stream. Meaning not only possible contamination from storm drains, ground runoff or industrial byproducts but as well medicines thousands of people took released by their urine upstream.

I highly recommend people install an osmosis filter in their home. Often times it filters the city water even cleaner then bottled water. Mine has a sediment filter, 2 sizable charcoal filters before it goes into the osmosis membrane. Then into a one gallon storage tank. When I open the separate osmosis tap on my sink the water leaves the tank going through a charcoal filter one last time. I also put a 'Y' connector on it to my refrigerator's water and icemaker line. This also frees up all the plastic bottles I'd otherwise generate. Use reusable stainless thermos bottles instead.

Here's a video I made years ago.


SOME FACTS: It is estimated that over a 70-year lifespan, a person drinking tap or mineral water will be ingesting about 200 to 300 pounds of rock that their body cannot use.  While most of these microscopic rock minerals will be eliminated from our bodies regularly, some will be stored in our tissues becoming toxic. The primary culprits are calcium salts and over time they can cause gallstones, kidney stones, bone & joint calcification, arthritis, and hardening and blocking our arteries. The presence of other hard metal minerals (some are radioactive!) is suspected to cause other degenerative diseases as well including eye glaucoma, cataracts, hearing loss, emphysema, diabetes, obesity and cancer. These minerals available, especially in "hard" tapwater, are poorly absorbed, or rejected by cellular tissue sites, and, if not evacuated, their presence may cause arterial obstruction, and internal damage.(Dennison 1993, Muehling 1994, Banik 1989)

Distillation systems are comparable in contaminant removal, however since many synthetic chemicals such as herbicides, pesticides and chlorine solutions have boiling points lower than water, these chemicals will vaporize and can be carried over into the product water container actually making the collected purified water even more concentrated in those particular chemicals.

Reverse osmosis is also the only purification system that can remove the majority of dangerous Pharmaceuticals & Drugs from our drinking water. Reverse osmosis removes many contaminants that countertop and faucet carbon filters cannot including viruses, bacteria, pesticides, arsenic, fluoride, drugs, cryptosporidium, mercury, nitrates, microbes, heavy metals, all radioactive materials, and many more. (Dennison 1993, Muehling 1994, Banik 1989)