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Old 01-25-2016, 05:50 PM
 
Location: Born in L.A. - NYC is Second Home - Rustbelt is Home Base
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Been testing water from PA, MI, WV and OH. I thought clean melted snow would be pretty pure. It is actually pretty filthy. The tap water from the Allegheny river is cleaner when it comes to dirt. The melted snow water stinks more than the tap water.

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Old 01-25-2016, 05:59 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh
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Where did you take the snow from? If you are out camping and drinking melted snow, you're supposed to not take the top couple of inches or bottom several.
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Old 01-26-2016, 03:45 PM
 
Location: Squirrel Hill PA
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Every snow flake and rain drop forms around a particle of dust or pollen in the atmosphere. So at it's core it is dirt. Most of the dirt is some form of air pollution. Precipitation helps to clean up the atmosphere by bringing that dirt back to earth. Why would you ever expect it to be pure? Maybe it is more pure in some place like Colorado, where there are fewer cities and people smogging up the air but it certainly won't be anything like when it comes from the skies over a city.
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Old 01-26-2016, 03:54 PM
 
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Just melt the yellow snow and use that
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Old 01-29-2016, 04:42 AM
 
Location: On the Chesapeake
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It was probably worse 50 years ago when a lot of people still heated with coal.
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Old 01-29-2016, 06:36 AM
 
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It was probably worse 50 years ago when a lot of people still heated with coal.
No one was still heating with coal 50 years ago though.
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Old 01-29-2016, 07:03 AM
 
Location: On the Chesapeake
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No one was still heating with coal 50 years ago though.

You would be incorrect.
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Old 01-29-2016, 10:47 AM
 
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My grandparents were using their coal furnace and coal stove well into the 1950's. I can't believe they were the last ones to get gas.
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Old 01-29-2016, 02:23 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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My grandparents were using their coal furnace and coal stove well into the 1950's. I can't believe they were the last ones to get gas.
My parents in Beaver Falls converted to gas in the 50s some time. That would be about 60 years ago now. Many others were still using coal at the time.

Here's an article about snow from NPR:
So You Want To Eat Snow. Is It Safe? We Asked Scientists : The Salt : NPR
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