re: Floodwater in New Orleans like 'toxic' stew, experts warn. Swimming in it? That's 'crazy'

There were some kids canoeing and playing in the flood waters as they rose in front of the house in August of 2016 and my dad and me sat on the front porch watching those retards.

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Isn’t it sourced from the Mississippi River?

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Yea but they’re pretty strict when it comes to environmental protection on the river and do a pretty good job of keeping it free of pollution.

Possibly but I’ll buy mine. This was as recent as Feb.

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Sewerage & Water Board and New Orleans officials are reassuring residents that the city’s drinking water is safe to consume after it was determined a large amount of treated water circulates through the utility’s power turbines to cool them before heading to the public. They outlined a plan for fixing the issue Tuesday (Feb. 5) that figures into the utility’s long-term aim to eventually use more power purchased from Entergy than in-house power generated from the turbines.

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State health officials, meanwhile, cited the utility Tuesday for violating state sanitary code due to the turbine-cooling water setup, though they agreed with the utility that the city’s water is and has been safe to drink.

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At first I thought you were serious, saying Nola has good water, but with this comment I am picking up the sarcasm.

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I’m 100% serious.

I never said there haven’t been instances where there was an issue and a boil water advisory was necessary. Aside from rare incidents, the system works well and provides good, clean tap water.

It was actually ranked 16th best in the country as recently as 2017.

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I never said there haven’t been instances where there was an issue and a boil water advisory was necessary. Aside from rare incidents, the system works well and provides good, clean tap water.

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I can tell you that any water from the river, while in compliance with the LDH and EPA standards, is not water that I'd prefer to drink. Add that to every time they lose pressure there are contaminants that enter the lines makes for a bad combo. Think of it this way, if NOSWB was on free chlorine instead of chloramine, they'd never be in compliance.

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It was actually ranked 16th best in the country as recently as 2017.

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Those rankings mean nothing, you don't find it strange that Kentwood or Abita Springs didn't make the list...You even stated earlier that Mandeville has better and it isn't on the list. Edit: it says out of the 200 biggest cities, but I still doubt the #16 ranking

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That’s your prerogative. However, none of that negates the FACT that New Orleans has great tap water, and that it’s better than most big cities in the country.

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Not my prerogative, it's a fact that river water is not great unless you use a RO on it. Not saying Nola tap water is undrinkable, just saying it's not great and it comes from a river that hosts thousands of industrial plants and has run off from numerous farms and sewer plants spanning the middle of america. The only prerogative being stated is you by claiming Nola has great water and probably know little of the industry.

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Not my prerogative, it's a fact that river water is not great unless you use a RO on it. Not saying Nola tap water is undrinkable, just saying it's not great and it comes from a river that hosts thousands of industrial plants and has run off from numerous farms and sewer plants spanning the middle of america. The only prerogative being stated is you by claiming Nola has great water and probably know little of the industry.

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Actually I used to work for Siemens doing RO, WAO, etc. so I know quite a bit about cleaning water.

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Actually I used to work for Siemens doing RO, WAO, etc. so I know quite a bit about cleaning water.

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So you know about cleaning water and you think taking river water and using conventional coagulation and filtration makes great water? Sand filters don't take out pharmaceuticals and without creating chloramines the TOC that gets through the filter would bust the DBPs, just doesn't sound like great water to me, then you add in the infrastructure issues. I get what your saying about taste, but the use of "great" just doesn't seem on point here.

The small town where I live used to have fantastic tap water, untreated, from a local well.

They failed one test, maybe 20 years ago, and the feds started requiring chlorine That must've eroded the ancient plumbing or something because the water has sucked since then.