So, how contaminated is our rain going to be?

[cephas]

Just my luck. Penn State with a govt. handout was offering free water testing. Had to watch a webinar and collect samples. Damn, sent them out Monday.
Not downplaying this at all, but has me thinking of how big the deal was with acid rain decades ago.
Looking at maps, if they're correct, we should be ok.

[Story]

Anybody here ever go and look at where Poland Spring, or Deer Park, or any other of the *all natural* bottled water actually comes from? I haven*t either, but there are not many places in our world not already touched by science assholes dumping their mistakes on the ground and moving to a new spot. Or firemen spraying AFFF into the groundwater. Or, truckers, farmers , and Amish washing out trucks, and pig sty*s onto the ground.
Yeah, we*re fucked!

Here ya go https://www.deerparkwater.com/brand/our-springs <- note that they're mostly in the NE corner of the Commonwealth.

There's two sources - aquifer and groundwater.



Groundwater is more easily contaminated. I think it was the Smithfield hog farm down in Mexico that became a source of disease, after flooding rains carried the pig poop into the local ground water sources.

[Walleye Hunter]

Anybody here ever go and look at where Poland Spring, or Deer Park, or any other of the *all natural* bottled water actually comes from? I haven*t either, but there are not many places in our world not already touched by science assholes dumping their mistakes on the ground and moving to a new spot. Or firemen spraying AFFF into the groundwater. Or, truckers, farmers , and Amish washing out trucks, and pig sty*s onto the ground.
Yeah, we*re fucked!

Nobody gets out of here alive.

[Story]

Thoughts?

This is the footprint map from 10 days ago.
https://www.penncapital-star.com/blo...nificant-risk/



EPA site profile https://response.epa.gov/site/site_p...?site_id=15933

[Walleye Hunter]

Just my luck. Penn State with a govt. handout was offering free water testing. Had to watch a webinar and collect samples. Damn, sent them out Monday.
Not downplaying this at all, but has me thinking of how big the deal was with acid rain decades ago.
Looking at maps, if they're correct, we should be ok.

USGS came out and tested my water a couple of years ago as part of an ongoing study that they perform. Everything in my water was A-OK except for Radon. So far, it has not helped with my night vision.

[Story]

Rain droplets form around particles in the air. Many tons of toxic particles are headed this way. The rain water is going to be worse than usual.

Given that list above, a Cold War era NBC NCO/Officer could probably calculate the downwind plume and contamination levels (along with their persistence), since this is very similar to preparing for a Soviet artillery barrage (where one out of every three shells were expected to be Bio/Chem).



See https://nuke.fas.org/guide/russia/cbw/cw.htm

[bogey1]

Someone explain why ever time it rains, the next day my truck looks like it was driven on a highway with rock salt.
And it hasn't moved from its parking spot in days.

[Story]

And if any of you 54 series guys out there are bored enough to do the math, have a leg up.

https://windexchange.energy.gov/maps-data/108

https://windexchange.energy.gov/maps-data/107

[Story]

Someone explain why ever time it rains, the next day my truck looks like it was driven on a highway with rock salt.
And it hasn't moved from its parking spot in days.

Angels hate you and are pissing on your truck.

[akley88]

the government says everything is fine and they would never lie, just please dont bring up things like 3 mile island response or the air after 9/11,