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Kougar wrote:Well, cities already spend a small fortune adding fluoride, chlorine, and processing the water to clean it and kill off anything in it before it's pumped into the municipal system. It doesn't go straight from the river to the tap.
For example, my city spent $572,880 in 2011 just to add flouride to the water supply. The cost of a couple sensors at the intake ports would be a drop in the bucket compared to that.
JustAnEngineer wrote:In the case of the chemical involved in this spill, it turns out to be a cyclic organic alcohol for which relatively little toxicity data was available. The CDC had to move fast to come up with a permissible exposure number based on limited LD50 testing in rats. Once they provided that number, the local officials were able to monitor the situation and determine when the water was safe to use.
JustAnEngineer wrote:In the case of the chemical involved in this spill, it turns out to be a cyclic organic alcohol for which relatively little toxicity data was available.