Chloramine in tap water

[skjl47]

Mystery Chemical in US Drinking Water Could Be Risk to Hundreds of Millions
Hello; The link states that the risk to people is not yet understood. So, an attention grabber so far. My water company uses only chlorine so i am out of it so far.

 

[HUKIT]

Interesting read. One of the reasons I bought my home is I’m on a private well so I don’t have to worry about chlorine or chloramines.

 

[skjl47]

Interesting read. One of the reasons I bought my home is I’m on a private well so I don’t have to worry about chlorine or chloramines.

Hello; I was lucky enough to have a good well for a long time at my previous home. That changed when the groundwater was contaminated near Dayhoit KY. They ran city water to the area and the site next to the Cumberland River became a super fund cleanup site.

 

[HUKIT]

Hello; I was lucky enough to have a good well for a long time at my previous home. That changed when the groundwater was contaminated near Dayhoit KY. They ran city water to the area and the site next to the Cumberland River became a super fund cleanup site.

What was the cause of the contamination? I have a farm a mile or two away and I get my water tested yearly to ensure no fertilization run off which could contaminant mine. Luckily in the 25 years I’ve been here it’s been very stable.

 

[skjl47]

What was the cause of the contamination? I have a farm a mile or two away and I get my water tested yearly to ensure no fertilization run off which could contaminant mine. Luckily in the 25 years I’ve been here it’s been very stable.

Hello; It was a chemical used to clean big shorted out electric motors used in the area coal mines. After the chemical became too used to clean the motor parts it was dumped on the ground maybe 50 -100 yards from the river. The name escapes me just now. I want to say dioxins but do not have much faith in that recall.

An interesting thing was I managed a drive-in movie theater located beside the electric motor repair during the 1970's. We used well water to mix the soft drinks at the time. Was a popular place back then. All the wells in a four or five mile radius were not to be used. My house was on the outside edge of the affected area and i was told my water was not affected but I signed up to have the city water anyway as it ran past the house. It was cheaper to do it while they were laying the lines and would have cost a lot more later.

 

[HUKIT]

Hello; It was a chemical used to clean big shorted out electric motors used in the area coal mines. After the chemical became too used to clean the motor parts it was dumped on the ground maybe 50 -100 yards from the river. The name escapes me just now. I want to say dioxins but do not have much faith in that recall.

An interesting thing was I managed a drive-in movie theater located beside the electric motor repair during the 1970's. We used well water to mix the soft drinks at the time. Was a popular place back then. All the wells in a four or five mile radius were not to be used. My house was on the outside edge of the affected area and i was told my water was not affected but I signed up to have the city water anyway as it ran past the house. It was cheaper to do it while they were laying the lines and would have cost a lot more later.

Wow, it’s amazing just how much damage ignorant and negligent people can do to our planet.

 

[RD.]

Mystery Chemical in US Drinking Water Could Be Risk to Hundreds of Millions
Hello; The link states that the risk to people is not yet understood. So, an attention grabber so far. My water company uses only chlorine so i am out of it so far.

One of the reasons promoted years ago for chloramine, over chlorine, beyond just it's increased stability, was the risk of trihalomethanes in chlorine treated drinking water. In high amounts THM's have been linked to developmental delays in infants, reproductive effects, liver damage and an increased risk of various cancers. Just having a hot shower, or washing ones hands, can result in significantly higher blood THM concentrations than simply drinking the water .

Tap Water and Trihalomethanes: Flow of Concerns Continues - PMC

THM's in drinking water have been associated with cancer, especially bladder cancer, for many years. The amount of organics in the water would play a major role in how high those THM levels are. Trihalomethanes in Drinking Water and Bladder Cancer Burden in the European Union - PMC

Our city switched from chlorine to chloramine approx. 25 yrs ago when they built a new water treatment facility. I welcomed the change, still do. Perhaps the lesser of two evils? Who knows? It definitely improved our water quality. Prior to the switch most folks couldn't drink the water during spring run off.

Most of the health risks involved with either/or would be closely related to the residual strength of the disinfectant at ones faucet, the material used in the pipes supplying that water (lead vs clay etc) the organic levels in the water, along with the process used at ones local water treatment facility.


Either way, most of this science involves humans - not finfish. Both chlorine & chloramine, in their pure form, are toxic to fish.

 

[duanes]

Legionaires disease was linked to air-conditioning systems that used only chlorine as a disinfectant, chloramine helped eliminate that.
When you consider all that water borne diseases that plagued humans throughtout history, a little chloramine has saved multitudes of lives since then.
So the trade off is adding sodium thio to remove it from our tanks, and worth the inconvenience saving us from Typhoid or some of the other deadly diseases..