No, I didn't know about mercury in the creeks. I remember when there was a "spill" from Tennessee Chemical Plant into the Ocoee and the guys with suits and long hose vaccums came to suck up the river bottom. It wasn't in the news but I was there.
Is mercury in OR tap water? I didn't drink the creeks. Tell me more about what creeks have it, and the source? I didn't know. But I'm not surprised. I remember when my dad got into checking wells for pollutants and found that everything was everywhere around the plants.
It takes less than the head of a pin sized bit of mercury to be totally guaranteed lethal to a human who ingests it.
Mercury is in all fish these days, and it's more concentrated in fish that are carnivorous (because it bio-accumulates) and also in fish near the equator--there is less coal-burning exhaust near the poles. It is the burning of coal for power that is polluting our fish with mercury. I'm sure the fish downwind of Bull Run Steam Plant are toxic as hell. So I eat more fish than I should, esp tuna which is top of the food chain....but I have cut back. I'm sure I'm taking in some mercury that way...are you?
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Is mercury in OR tap water? I didn't drink the creeks. Tell me more about what creeks have it, and the source? I didn't know. But I'm not surprised. I remember when my dad got into checking wells for pollutants and found that everything was everywhere around the plants.
It takes less than the head of a pin sized bit of mercury to be totally guaranteed lethal to a human who ingests it.
Mercury is in all fish these days, and it's more concentrated in fish that are carnivorous (because it bio-accumulates) and also in fish near the equator--there is less coal-burning exhaust near the poles. It is the burning of coal for power that is polluting our fish with mercury. I'm sure the fish downwind of Bull Run Steam Plant are toxic as hell. So I eat more fish than I should, esp tuna which is top of the food chain....but I have cut back. I'm sure I'm taking in some mercury that way...are you?