Water quality testing blog

The residents of Midland, Texas are battling well water contaminated with hexavalent chromium, a known human carcinogen. It’s the same carcinogen found in Hinkley, California’s water that environmental activist Erin Brockovich successfully fought. The potable water is testing at extremly high levels.   Here’s a link to the story and another link to the Daily Kos blog post.
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The majority of farms draw the water used to irrigate their fields from wells so WHY would they ever need to test for the presence of chlorine?
Simple: Every once in a while those wells might get ’shocked’ with an oxidizer such as chlorine in response to unforeseen events such as regional flooding or the contamination of nearby soil [...]

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Owning a well implies responsibility for the quality of the water coming from the well.  Water professionals suggest that well owners have their water tested by a certified laboratory at least once a year or any time a shift in taste, color or odor occurs.  That does NOT mean, however, that well owners ought to let their guard [...]

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Rachel Gallegos • Iowa City Press-Citizen • June 25, 2008
Residents whose drinking water comes from private wells should have their water tested if their wells were covered by or were close to flood water, according to a news release from the University of Iowa Hygienic Lab.The University Hygienic Lab distributed hundreds of water testing kits [...]

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