Ok...You know about the Sinkhole and Aquafier but today was scary for those of us informed who read here on Daily Kos and surely I am terrified. EPA needs to get to Florida . Florida needs to be Calling Erin Brockovich or Al Gore or the CDC… immediately.
Listen to this and then I will tell you about the Boil Water going on and off all across the state and the BS we are being handed and then what reads like conspiracy because of the lack of transparency and how print media is thrown into political warfare with The State and accused of exaggerating. They are simply reporting. They are trying to do their jobs.
LISTEN TO THIS FROM A NON PROFIT Environmental expert analyzing what is really happening to 90 percent of Florida’s drinking water. This is also true for South Ga and South Carolina. click the link to hear the audio interview.
I got up this morning and had a cup of coffee after a shower. I went and checked messages on the phone. I had a message on my phone that I will upload as soon as I can from our Sheriff’s Dept.
This is an emergency Alert: The City of Inverness is under a Water Boil Advisory for at least 48 hours or until further Notice. Something about pressure…due to a lightning strike that hit the Water Facility Plant and if you have any questions call the Sheriff’s Dept non emergency #. Well this got me a little concerned as we have heard nothing from the Utility company or the Health Dept. I had already bathed in and drank the water. The phone call came in at 8:40 PM last night. I did not get the call and sure others did not either and it was not followed up with Notices in the morning. ( One note) on the Sheriff’s Dept Facebook page.
I immediately called the water company to find out why they were saying lightning strike when we had no storms to my knowledge in the last 24 hours. They insisted lightning strike is what they were told. I want to know if it had to do with the acquafier and they said, “ Oh it is the lightning strike”. I then observe on the way to run errands and utility white trucks are on just about every road I go on but they are not stopped and seem to be patrolling more than working on pipes. I see no water works trucks stopped just driving. I stock up on some ice and bottled water and then decide to look further at how much the state is under a water drinking ban. There were problems all over and different reasons given to boil. I talk to a convenience store worker and asked if she had coffee. She said, “ Can’t” We are banned to use the water. I said how were you notified? She said. “ Sheriff’s deputies came in and notified them not to use the coffee or the Soda machines”. Again ..to me this is odd. Why not the water officials? Why was law enforcement notifying business not to use the water? I then find this on the City’s Notice Page this afternoon. Nothing else.. Just this and no mention on the Citrus paper to date.
This is all we got… No details… Nothing !!!!!
Posted on: September 21, 2016
Boil Notice in EffectA boil water notice is in effect City wide until further notice. Updates will be provided.
The mystery gets deeper in the hole pardon the comparison, when our son starts getting emergency tests on his phone and owns a small carpet cleaning business ( USES WATER) and we heard one of the alarms that he got from several agencies. They were Emergency tests.
THIS IS A TEST FROM THE DEPT OF HOMELAND SECURITY. BEEP BEEP BEEP… THIS IS A TEST
THIS IS A TEST FROM THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY.. THIS IS A TEST
Has anyone else received these kind of Tests on September 21? This I want to know.
There were three other agencies back to back doing emergency tests over his cell phone.
My cell phone nor my husband received these tests. We get the Amber Alert Tests as he does but.. We get nada from these agencies but we hear the test as they keep going off on his phone.
I feel this is very suspicious activity in our area right after a major event with our water supply. I start researching papers and find this from the Tampa Bay Times today who has been attacked in my opinion for reporting the Sinkhole and then copied and pasted the Florida EPA statement.
See why I am concerned.. Read this:
More than one in eight public water systems in Florida is afflicted with pollution-related violations, many involving unsafe fecal or chemical contamination. Yet despite hundreds of recent drinking water violations, Florida enforcement efforts have shrunk to almost undetectable levels; The DEP is proposing to increase the level of carcinogens, such as benzene (from 1.18 ppb [parts per billion] to 2 ppb – the federal standard is 1.14 ppb), allowed in Florida’s surface waters. EPA has yet to rule on whether to allow this shift that will up the odds for organic and inorganic compounds making their way into Florida’s potable water supply; and Florida’s Environmental Regulation Commission has only business representatives because Florida’s Governor has failed to fill the two environmental seats on the 7-member body. OR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sept. 20, 2016 CONTACT: DEP Press Office, 850.245.2112, dep.state.fl.us DEP SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT MOSAIC NEW WALES FACILITY SINKHOLETALLAHASSEE, Fla. – In an article published today by the Tampa Bay Times, the paper chose to omit the facts regarding the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) actions to notify homeowners following the discovery of a sinkhole at Mosaic’s New Wales Facility in Polk County. DEP’s priority is always the safety of Floridians and our environment. That’s why DEP has gone above and beyond the requirements of Florida law by working with Mosaic to notify the nearest adjacent homeowners who may want their drinking water wells tested. This information was provided in writing to the Times, but the paper chose to omit this fact and mislead their readers.
Additionally, DEP has been on-site frequently and communicating with Mosaic daily to ensure effective response activities are underway and frequent monitoring continues to ensure the health and safety of nearby Floridians.
I call Bullshit as Scott’s EPA is trying to cover their ass and then turns it political regarding the latest news on the Tampa Bay Times.
A separate issue on Water but all about the State and the Environment.
Gov. Rick Scott ordered the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to investigate St. Petersburg's sewage crisis Wednesday, Mayor Rick Kriseman announced he was replacing two top city wastewater officials.
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Water Resources director Steve Leavitt and engineering director Tom Gibson have been placed on unpaid leave. Both are longtime city employees who were intimately involved in the closure of the Albert Whitted plant, the expansion of the city's Southwest plant and have been at the forefront of addressing the city's growing sewage mess.
Gibson signed the task order for a 2014 consultant study that warned about sewage problems if the Albert Whitted plant was closed. Leavitt has run wastewater operations for more than four years.
The personnel moves came as Scott ordered the DEP investigation, which itself followed U.S. Rep. David Jolly's call for a federal environmental inquiry.
Scott also directed the state Department of Health to conduct additional testing of Tampa Bay beaches and water. The state has already issued one health advisory warning for Simmons Park Beach, across the bay from St. Petersburg.
Nobody as far as I know trusts Florida’s Environmental Agency. Do we really trust Scott to look out for us?
Now this from Orlando Sentinel
The incident comes less than a year after Mosaic, one of the world's largest fertilizer makers, settled a massive federal environmental lawsuit with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in which the company agreed to nearly $2 billion in fixes, improvements and cleanups at its plants.
Since the 1960s, toxic solid waste from fertilizer production in Florida has been growing -- some stored in 500-foot-tall piles that sometimes span more than 600 acres. Mosaic makes a common phosphorus-based fertilizer, the production of which creates polluted water and solid waste.
In 2004, during Hurricane Frances, 65 million gallons of polluted waste from a fertilizer plant was sent into waters near Tampa Bay, resulting in thousands of dead fish and other marine life.
And in 1994, another sinkhole in Polk County opened sending tons of waste from one of the company's waste piles into the earth.
EPA found that Mosaic improperly handled its facilities, which posed a threat to the environment and human health. These violations led to last year's legal settlement and the company's public commitment to become more environmentally friendly.
Environmental groups said the damage from the sinkhole could be severe, and adds to decades of pollution from the phosphorous fertilizer industry. Florida is a key center of phosphate mining.
"I wish we could say that watching an environmental tragedy unfolding at a Florida phosphate mining site was a new occurrence, but sadly it's happened repeatedly," said Tania Galloni, an attorney with the Florida office of Earthjustice. "These phosphate companies are playing roulette with our public waters."
In the meantime I am sitting here with no tap fit to drink nor cook. Why the mystery and when I ask why this was considered an emergency, I go absolutely no answers. Is anyone else in the state getting these kind of Boil water alerts with ridiculous or no explanations? Seems from what I have read since the sinkhole deal… It has been boil.then .safe.. not safe..boil and on going. I got news for Scott...and the city where I live….You cannot boil away radioactivity no more than you can lead !!!!!