Oak Ridge Scary stuff (Chattanooga, Harriman: compensation, safe, food)

[bbkaren]

Kris, where are you moving to in Loudon? Loudon/Kingston border is where our land is.

p.s. we're in Morris County, btw, so I feel ya on the money. I think a lot of it is "way too much debt" rather than the actual cash on hand, kwim?

[Eat]

Originally Posted by Kris270

Thanks for the Sperlings site. That was a good site.

Have to report. City I currently live in had a ranking as follows (remember 100 is the best). Air 43, water 20, superfund sites 10.

Area plan on moving to (Loudon) - air 73, water 33, superfund sites 99

Definately a move up. Would have liked to see the water # higher but it is better then were I am coming from.

I tried to find that water rating of 33 on the EPA site and couldn't. I was interested in how they came up with it and exactly which area was covered. Tennessee has multiple overlapping public utilities jurisdictions, most of which cross county lines, and which have different coverage areas for different services.

There are several different utilities that provide drinking water in Loudon County. There seems to be no way to determine which one they are talking about. Also, many county residents are on private wells. We have superb well water, but you can go a few miles to the west and find sulphur water.

I think that number is pretty meaningless.

[Kris270]

I found the number by going to Sperlings: the best places to live

Then entered Loudon TN. Went to the health statistics. I have no idea how they come up with the number. Didn't look at the site that closely. Was just curious as to how my town in NJ would compare to TN. TN was obviously better.

bbKaren - we are moving to Tellico Village. So I may not be escaping those progressive type people but I fell in love with the area and love all the amenities and since I will not know anyone figured I would need a way to meet people and the kids will enjoy the lake, pools, and tennis courts.

[LauraC]

Originally Posted by Kris270

I found the number by going to Sperlings: the best places to live

Then entered Loudon TN. Went to the health statistics. I have no idea how they come up with the number. Didn't look at the site that closely. Was just curious as to how my town in NJ would compare to TN. TN was obviously better.

bbKaren - we are moving to Tellico Village. So I may not be escaping those progressive type people but I fell in love with the area and love all the amenities and since I will not know anyone figured I would need a way to meet people and the kids will enjoy the lake, pools, and tennis courts.

If you hover your cursor over water quality or actually click on it, it tells you the score is the measure of the area's water supply as rated by the Environmental Protection Agency. Higher values are better. The EPA has a complex method of measuring the watershed quality using 15 indicators such as pollutants, turbidity, sediments, and toxic discharges. So the score is not assigned by Sperlings but by the EPA.

Now if you go to the EPA website and try to find this, lots of luck. They have to have one of the worst organized government websites I have ever seen. There's too much stuff on it. It looks like they built it as a reference tool for their employees (should have a separate website for that) rather than an information tool for the public.

[Eat]

Originally Posted by LauraC

If you hover your cursor over water quality or actually click on it, it tells you the score is the measure of the area's water supply as rated by the Environmental Protection Agency. Higher values are better. The EPA has a complex method of measuring the watershed quality using 15 indicators such as pollutants, turbidity, sediments, and toxic discharges. So the score is not assigned by Sperlings but by the EPA.

Now if you go to the EPA website and try to find this, lots of luck. They have to have one of the worst organized government websites I have ever seen. There's too much stuff on it. It looks like they built it as a reference tool for their employees (should have a separate website for that) rather than an information tool for the public.

Yes, it's bad all right.

Which leaves me questioning just what the Sperlings rating applies to. As I pointed out, there are multiple water utilities in Loudon County, and I'm pretty sure that's the case in the other counties. Without knowing which one Sperlings is pointing at, the information isn't really all that useful.

[hiknapster]

I'd be more concerned with an accident than I would with the drinking water.

Evacuation Map and Routes

pogo.org U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: Y-12 and Oak Ridge National Laboratory At High Risk 10/16/2006 Project On Government Oversight

[myndsplyntur]

Every Wednesday at noon the alarms go off in Oak Ridge. When I worked there the first time I heard the alarms I freaked out so bad, lol

[myndsplyntur]

Hey I just checked out that best places website, that's chock full of information. We should just post that link everytime someone has a question about Knoxville or anywhere for that matter lol

[bbkaren]

can't...it's a competitor to city-data. Posting it is against policy. Do it and your link'll get yanked. We are however, free to suggest that people google certain words, which will come up with a certain result--that's how I get the message across. Or DM is of course always an option!

[hammockbrain]

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First of all, people are not going to keel over dead on the spot. Cancer is much more insidious.

Second, people are not moving anywhere in droves. That has come to a firm halt.

Alarmists? All the information is true. Go on the ORNL website and see how they expect everyone to file out in a orderly fashion, or hunker down in their homes, after shutting down the air conditioning, and wait for further notice, in the event of a disaster.

Of course, that advice is only for leaks. In the event of a terrorist attack, we are all toast. Believe me, that played on my mind, this September 11.[/quote]

I've lived in the Washington, DC area for the past 13 yrs, there are 3 airports in the area, plus Andrews AFB, plus Patuxent River Air Station, plus a nuclear plant. Any bad thing can happen at any time there, witness 9/11. I want to move out of there because of the cost of living and I want to see some mountains.
Also I went to Desert Storm, was stationed in Germany during the time of the Iran hostage crisis and during the time of a lot of terrorist attacks there. God is going to take me when he wants to take me, and if he takes me because of something happening at Oak Ridge, so be it, I'll be in His arms, hopefully.
Hiknapster, you said that people coming in droves from elsewhere has come to a screeching halt? I thought else where I had read that you couldn't stop the flow, what's the reality?