new need for a filter

“The local water system is really in trouble,, last winter we were forced into supplying the next town due to MBTE in their wells, for free, now we have E coli showing up in ours,, so I finally was able to convince the wife a filter was a neccesity,, so I'm off to EMS tomorrow for a miniworks,, now if I could only justify a GPS,,,,”

“MBTE ?”

“it's a gasoline additive used in the northeast,, a gas station had a leak and it got into the groundwater,, bottom line is, their well system had to be shut down, and through legal maneuvering, my village was forced to GIVE them water from our system, with no repayment to us for expenses ,, we still are, and had to put in a new wellfield, just to supply them!”

“Here is a MTBE information site.”

“I used to to some groundwater work. MTBE is nasty stuff. Takes a very long time for it to go away.

Good luck with all that filtering, SY!”

“Yow. Good luck with the E. coli!”

“They shut down the MBTE contaminated wellfields altogether, the E coli is a new problem,, they're chlorinating the system so it should clear in a few weeks,, just funny that the nasties you expect in the field hit in the homefront instead.”

“Bacteria found in Hanford waste
Toxic radioactive soil below leaking tank unlikely place for life

By TOM PAULSON
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER

Scientists studying the soil beneath a leaking Hanford nuclear waste storage tank have discovered more than 100 species of bacteria living in a toxic, radioactive environment that most would have thought inhospitable to all forms of life.

"Even in some of the most contaminated zones, we found a few living organisms," said Fred Brockman, a microbial ecologist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland. Brockman is presenting the findings today at the American Society for Microbiology's annual meeting in New Orleans.

For most living creatures, the nuclear and chemical waste in the underground storage tanks on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is the deadliest mixture of toxins and radioactive muck on the planet.

For certain bacteria, however, this toxic goop left over from decades of nuclear weapons production appears to be just a second home.

"Scientifically, it's pretty interesting stuff," said Jim Fredrickson, Brockman's colleague on this project and a fellow microbiologist at the lab. "The material in the tank is self-boiling and quite hot, so it's not just radioactive and harsh chemicals but also in extreme heat."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/175015_bugs26.html?searchpagefrom=1&searchdiff=2”