uranium in our water...another reason why tapwater is not ok...

Sk8r · 11/12/2007, 09:55 PM

I've lived places where tap had nitrate through the roof [here]; and arsenic [Oklahoma]; now north Idaho has uranium, and they're not letting schoolchildren drink it.

Yet one more reason for ro/di filters, dear friends. I don't know how they are at pulling uranium, but it's a big fat atom, so maybe there's hope they will. Myself, I'm drinking filtered water and keeping the filters up to date.

This is a doozy, from our evening news.

fatrip · 11/12/2007, 09:59 PM

dam i wouldnt even be drinking filtered water...get some bottled water...that is crazy...

coast2coast7390 · 11/12/2007, 09:59 PM

wow Uranium...how did it get there

demonsp · 11/12/2007, 10:03 PM

My pets get filtered water. Bad enough i have to shower in it.
In my city in the last 2 yrs they have have 2 bodies floating in the intake cannal at the water treatment plant. They increase the chlorine and you can always tell when they have a problem by the smell of the water.

We have floaties in the water , poor a glass and look through it in the bright light and little things are floating. Wow what is this magical stuff UNFILTERED TOILET PAPER that made it through the treatment plant. WONDERFUL.

This is why i cant beleive people like blurting out , i use tap and never have problems.

Playa-1 · 11/12/2007, 10:03 PM

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Originally posted by fatrip
dam i wouldnt even be drinking filtered water...get some bottled water...that is crazy...

I think i would be importing my water if it uranium in it

Kemo484 · 11/12/2007, 10:18 PM

Uranium, jeeze, I have sand in my tap water and I thought that was bad.

Sk8r · 11/12/2007, 10:34 PM

Uranium is a heavy element [235 atomic weight, if I remotely remember: carbon is 6.] We live right near the continental divide, and next to an ancient plate boundary, here on the border of Washington and Idaho...and where magma has come welling up bigtime [we have basalt 100s of feet thick here], and where plutons [big old miles-wide chunks of solidified magmatic stuff that used to be way deep, solidified, and rose slowly like marshmallow in chocolate [granite will do it, in a sea of basaltic magma, because it is lighter than basalt [continental material as opposed to seabed material [basalt]]]---
At any rate, a long time ago a lot of molten stuff floated around here when what used to be islands slammed into Idaho and made Washington. [Idaho used to be beachfront property.]

All this is to say---where there was deep molten stuff welling up, you can get heavy metals from the very, very deep part of the mantle---you'll find gold, silver, some tin, aluminum [bauxite], and yes, some of the heavyiest, uranium, etc. And when water flows through these areas, well, it just acquires a certain something.

For anyone interested in learning more about the geology hereabouts or anywhere else in the USA, get Roadside Geology of Washington or any of the other state or regional books. They're fascinating.

But I would have preferred not to find it in my drinking water.

demonsp · 11/12/2007, 10:41 PM

This may all be true but i think it was the government. Experiments and stuff.

Sk8r · 11/12/2007, 11:56 PM

As I recall, pitchblende is uranium ore, and it just turns up in places up here. We're north of the Nevada test sites, and the clouds used to drift over Oklahoma and Kansas, and on, of course, to Missouri and Arkansas---I used to live down there, when they told us we could no longer safely make 'snow' ice cream, a winter treat now long passe. And that we possibly shouldn't drink milk. That's when the word 'strontium' entered my 10 year old vocabulary, coupled with the words 'radioactive,' 'roentgen', 'geiger counter,' and 'ground zero.'

But up northerly, you do find metals [including the radioactive ones] naturally occuring. Just not nice that they've turned up in the water supply.

Latzi17 · 11/13/2007, 01:01 AM

Well Uranium is a radioactive element, so maybe if you drink enough unfiltered tap water, you'll develop super powers. Or you might get cancer and die. But life is one big chance taking machine.

fishworm · 11/13/2007, 02:13 AM

maybe everyone in Idaho will develop a glowing personality.

sorry, had to do it.

11/12/2007, 09:55 PM	#1
Sk8r RC Mod Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Spokane WA Posts: 34,628 Blog Entries: 55	uranium in our water...another reason why tapwater is not ok... I've lived places where tap had nitrate through the roof [here]; and arsenic [Oklahoma]; now north Idaho has uranium, and they're not letting schoolchildren drink it. Yet one more reason for ro/di filters, dear friends. I don't know how they are at pulling uranium, but it's a big fat atom, so maybe there's hope they will. Myself, I'm drinking filtered water and keeping the filters up to date. This is a doozy, from our evening news. __________________ Sk8r Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low. Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%.

11/12/2007, 09:59 PM	#2
fatrip Yup That Stuff Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: , ny Posts: 4,317	dam i wouldnt even be drinking filtered water...get some bottled water...that is crazy... __________________ Vince "We learn from history that we never learn anything from history." Hegel

11/12/2007, 10:34 PM	#7
Sk8r RC Mod Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Spokane WA Posts: 34,628 Blog Entries: 55	Uranium is a heavy element [235 atomic weight, if I remotely remember: carbon is 6.] We live right near the continental divide, and next to an ancient plate boundary, here on the border of Washington and Idaho...and where magma has come welling up bigtime [we have basalt 100s of feet thick here], and where plutons [big old miles-wide chunks of solidified magmatic stuff that used to be way deep, solidified, and rose slowly like marshmallow in chocolate [granite will do it, in a sea of basaltic magma, because it is lighter than basalt [continental material as opposed to seabed material [basalt]]]--- At any rate, a long time ago a lot of molten stuff floated around here when what used to be islands slammed into Idaho and made Washington. [Idaho used to be beachfront property.] All this is to say---where there was deep molten stuff welling up, you can get heavy metals from the very, very deep part of the mantle---you'll find gold, silver, some tin, aluminum [bauxite], and yes, some of the heavyiest, uranium, etc. And when water flows through these areas, well, it just acquires a certain something. For anyone interested in learning more about the geology hereabouts or anywhere else in the USA, get Roadside Geology of Washington or any of the other state or regional books. They're fascinating. But I would have preferred not to find it in my drinking water. __________________ Sk8r Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low. Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%.

11/12/2007, 11:56 PM	#9
Sk8r RC Mod Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Spokane WA Posts: 34,628 Blog Entries: 55	As I recall, pitchblende is uranium ore, and it just turns up in places up here. We're north of the Nevada test sites, and the clouds used to drift over Oklahoma and Kansas, and on, of course, to Missouri and Arkansas---I used to live down there, when they told us we could no longer safely make 'snow' ice cream, a winter treat now long passe. And that we possibly shouldn't drink milk. That's when the word 'strontium' entered my 10 year old vocabulary, coupled with the words 'radioactive,' 'roentgen', 'geiger counter,' and 'ground zero.' But up northerly, you do find metals [including the radioactive ones] naturally occuring. Just not nice that they've turned up in the water supply. __________________ Sk8r Salinity 1.024-6; alkalinity 8.3-9.3 on KH scale; calcium 420; magnesium 1300, temp 78-80, nitrate .2. Ammonia 0. No filters: lps tank. Alk and cal won't rise if mg is low. Current Tank Info: 105g AquaVim wedge, yellow tang, sailfin blenny,royal gramma, ocellaris clown pair, yellow watchman, 100 microceriths, 25 tiny hermits, a 4" conch, 1" nassarius, recovering from 2 year hiatus with daily water change of 10%.

11/13/2007, 02:13 AM	#11
fishworm Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Strafford, Missouri Posts: 154	maybe everyone in Idaho will develop a glowing personality. sorry, had to do it. __________________ If it aint a cichlid, it aint worth eatin'. Yeah. Wait, what? Current Tank Info: 75 gallon reef in the works. also have a 150 gallon FW tropheus/petrochromis tanks and a 125 gallon SA/CA cichlid tank.

11/12/2007, 09:59 PM	#3
coast2coast7390 Moved On Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Garden Grove Posts: 3,627	wow Uranium...how did it get there

11/12/2007, 10:03 PM	#4
demonsp Moved On Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: el paso tx Posts: 7,634	My pets get filtered water. Bad enough i have to shower in it. In my city in the last 2 yrs they have have 2 bodies floating in the intake cannal at the water treatment plant. They increase the chlorine and you can always tell when they have a problem by the smell of the water. We have floaties in the water , poor a glass and look through it in the bright light and little things are floating. Wow what is this magical stuff UNFILTERED TOILET PAPER that made it through the treatment plant. WONDERFUL. This is why i cant beleive people like blurting out , i use tap and never have problems.

11/12/2007, 10:18 PM	#6
Kemo484 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Sarasota, Florida Posts: 158	Uranium, jeeze, I have sand in my tap water and I thought that was bad.

11/12/2007, 10:41 PM	#8
demonsp Moved On Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: el paso tx Posts: 7,634	This may all be true but i think it was the government. Experiments and stuff.

11/13/2007, 01:01 AM	#10
Latzi17 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: San Francisco Posts: 29	Well Uranium is a radioactive element, so maybe if you drink enough unfiltered tap water, you'll develop super powers. Or you might get cancer and die. But life is one big chance taking machine.