Thread about water in Chic burbs section (Chicago, DeKalb: organic, live in)

[SP1]

I'm sorry that the Administrator didn't realize that this post also effects the city of Chicago as it will effect the water supply so there was a need for the thread to be duplicated. However you can still read it in the Chicago Suburbs forum.

The meeting was today at Noon in DeKalb. I hope you are all watching this unfold. There are some interesting studies on this issue. Certain chemicals are never removed from the water and some cause many health problems including miscarriages, cancer and immune system problems.

[SP1]

I believe that this issue goes beyond the chemicals in horses which as I understand have about twice the amount of blood that cows so there would be more per animal slaughtered.
Also the shear volume of organic material seems to be overwhelming the system. They apparently were over the limit of discharge after the first truck full of horses were slaughtered, and just how many truck loads a day do they kill? 4, 5, 6 does anyone know? I mean this is gross overload, you can't get all of this out of the water. Whether DeKalb uses Kishwaukee River or not, someone further down the river will. Is there some reason that the DeKalb Sanitary District won't use the river? What does that say to any town that does? It's flowing right past all of you or should I say glowing with RADIUM. Radium re-emerges in sludge samples
http://www.midweeknews.com/articles/...b/dekalb03.txt

DRINK UP! Folks this is real and going into the river.

I believe that this issue goes beyond the chemicals in horses which as I understand have about twice the amount of blood that cows so there would be more per animal slaughtered.
Also the shear volume of organic material seems to be overwhelming the system. They apparently were over the limit of discharge after the first truck full of horses were slaughtered, and just how many truck loads a day do they kill? 4, 5, 6 does anyone know? I mean this is gross overload, you can't get all of this out of the water. Whether DeKalb uses Kishwaukee River or not, someone further down the river will. Is there some reason that the DeKalb Sanitary District won't use the river? What does that say to any town that does? It's flowing right past all of you or should I say glowing with RADIUM. Radium re-emerges in sludge samples
http://www.midweeknews.com/articles/...b/dekalb03.txt

DRINK UP! Folks this is real and going into the river.

http://www.daily-chronicle.com/content/articles/2007/02/19/news/news02 (broken link)

[oakparkdude]

Not to minimize the problem, but how does this affect the Chicago water supply? Chicago gets it water from Lake Michigan. Toxins dumped in Dekalb will end up in the Mississippi river, not Lake Michigan.

[SP1]

I understand that the tributary from DeKalb travels north. However many people that work in the city live in the burbs, and since they are dumping in the river this should be of concern to all Americans even those not in IL let alone those in the region.

It would be less of a concern to the city but an issue that I believe everyone would care about though perhaps not as strong.