ARSENIC IN THE WATER

[snow_lynx]

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/dec/29/roane-county-exec-expects-tva-change-ash-storage-m

A few steps ahead of the government warnings, again, thanks to some savvy friends and a little "better safe" behaviour.  We are now

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[crankycoyote]

You might want to get your well checked out before you leave. You're far enough away from the spill, and upstream from it, so it might not actually affect you. Or it might; I'm not a hydrologist, but it would suck to leave a house that nice without knowing for sure.

[snow_lynx]

Absolutely. We had professionals in tonight, but they have to send the heavy metals one to a lab. They found the standard crud, and that our water is ridiculously hard (typical is 6.5, Dallas is around 8, ours was 14), but they can't tell more than that yet. And the City gave us a number to call for a free heavy metals test, too, which we're calling in tomorrow. And also an air quality test.

And arsenic can be filtered out of well water with a whole-house filtration system. If we can convince our landlord to buy one. Which shouldn't be hard if there's arsenic in the water!

We're not *definitely* moving, but we should find someplace to go in case we have to.

No matter how we have leave it, leaving this house will hurt a LOT.

[snow_lynx]

We have in-line filters - problem is, they do not catch arsenic and heavy metals :-(

[snow_lynx]

LOL, now WHAT would make you think people in Appalachia know about THAT sorta thing.... ;)

Ideally, our landlord will install the filter for us and we won't have to try to come up with the money.

Don't think we'll be staying anyway, though - can't filter the air through our log-cabin of a house. Can't even keep the wasps and mice out! It's beautiful, but not worth dying for!