WEST COAST READ ALERT! - Tap water has radiation 18,000 % higher than allow by EPA

[Pharaoh]

Run time: 06:34 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9W97tqjjzg   Posted on YouTube: April 05, 2011 By YouTube Member: PoliticalSeer Views on YouTube: 307   Posted on DU: April 05, 2011 By DU Member: Pharaoh Views on DU: 2618

 
Please debunk.

[cliffordu]

1. Uh, it's a website called "Prophetic Seeker"

mainly

[Pharaoh]

2. Yes your right

I think this is hogwash after looking into it further. I jumped the gun :party:

[MineralMan]

3. Consider the source, who doesn't even know the name

of the University to which he refers. The University of Berkeley in California? Maybe there's a mail order degree mill with that name, but I've never heard of it. Maybe he meant the Berklee College of Music. It's not in California, though. Who knows? http://www.berklee.edu/

Random YouTube vlogs should always be suspect.

Go look for independent verification of these figures. You can start right here on DU. There was a thread about this yesterday.

[Pharaoh]

6. http://berkeley.edu/

[MineralMan]

9. Yes, I know about the University of California at Berkeley.

Your vlogger doesn't, apparently. That should have been your first clue.

[Pharaoh]

15. you just said

of the University to which he refers. The University of Berkeley in California? Maybe there's a mail order degree mill with that name, but I've never heard of it.

then you said

Yes, I know about the University of California at Berkeley. So he mixed up the 2 words.

:shrug:

[MineralMan]

20. And that's not all he mixed up. That's my point.

If you can't get the name of the University correct, why would I believe the other information. As it turned out, it was bullshit.

[Pharaoh]

22. Never can admit when your wrong can you MM?

The University of Berkeley in California? Maybe there's a mail order degree mill with that name, but I've never heard of it. Maybe he meant the Berklee College of Music.

[MineralMan]

24. There is no University of Berkeley in California. No such school.

There is the University of California AT Berkeley. That's its name. There was also no such amount of radiation in the tap water.

[Pharaoh]

26. .

Whatever :party:

[MineralMan]

27. No, not whatever. If a YouTube vlogger posts a video where he

gets basic information wrong, you can safely disregard the rest of the information. There are too many accurate sources to rely on questionable ones on YouTube. But, you're welcome to post anything you like. It's just that someone, if not me, will point out the errors. It just seems worth double-checking before posting.

[Pharaoh]

28. Whatever MM

O8)

[Pharaoh]

4. @Skinner

Wish there was a way to take down a post after you realize it is untrue.

[MineralMan]

10. There is. It's called the edit button. Edit your post to have

no content, then alert on your own post. It will go away, especially in the Political Videos forum.

[Renew Deal]

5. What's this "radiation" mumbo jumbo? It's called Mineral Water.

:beer:

[Billy Burnett]

8. I want to live in a world where there is NO radiation. It will look like this ...

[Angry Dragon]

11. ...............

:silly:



:hi:

[pnwmom]

7. Wrong. It was RAINWATER, not tap water that had the elevated levels.

That is a huge distinction.

[TheEuclideanOne]

12. Very true, but it explains why all the cats in that area glow in the dark

And why the drinking water looks like Mountain Dew. :)

[pnwmom]

13. When the drinking water looks like Mountain Dew

I will definitely avoid it.

;)

[TheEuclideanOne]

14. Same here, but you have to admit that Glow In the Dark cats are cool

Think of the money you can save by not needing to buy a nightlight. In fact, this could also be a good way for Cities to save money on electricity. If the numbers continue like this article suggests, nightlights may be replace by GlowCats

[a simple pattern]

16. I know this story has been going around,

I first saw it on enenews.com. They took their initial measurement of the 3/23 I131 spike from the UCB website; it was 20.1Bq/L. To get the "effective dose" you are then supposed to multiply that by 0.001851, which gives you 0.0372051 millirem/L. Reference man, who btw is a radiation worker (they don't tell you that straight out but his limit of exposure is 50 millirem/yr.), is allowed to drink water with up to 0.06849 millirem/L., all the time, until the radioactive elements reach equilibrium in his body, as long as he doesn't breathe any radioactive air or get dental x-rays or what have you. SO. If reference man drinks the rain water on 3/23, he is getting 0.543219448 of his daily radiation limit from I131 in the water. That's not too bad, right?

Except that reference man is not based on long-term studies of actual people with actual radioactive particles in their bodies. He's just an imaginary guy that works at a nuke plant, and if he gets zapped with 50 millirem all at once he has to take the rest of the year off.

As to 20.1 Bq/L, that does in fact work out to 543 PiC/L, which is about 180 times the EPA's legal drinking water limit of 3PiC/L. But don't worry! It was only that high for one day, and the EPA will have raised the limits sufficiently by the time the next nuke plant blows up that you won't have to worry about a thing.

[JJW]

17. WTF

doesn't rain water the farmland in the Valley that supplies most of our fruits and vegetables?

Like BP oil, we'll be told radiation vanished and/or is safe. Be happy and pay your taxes!

[bvar22]

18. ...and don't forget to !CONSUME!

Go Shopping!
Be Happy!

Just to be safe, you may want to postpone those Dental X-Rays for a few hundred years.
But HEY! Everybody HATES The Dentist anyway!
:party:

[ooglymoogly]

19. This is a plot by Poland Springs and the bottled water industry.

[AtheistCrusader]

21. What's a 'read' alert?

QUICK! Read a book!

[MineralMan]

23. I read a book once. After it was read, I noticed it was red.

I'm not sure why I didn't notice it was red before it was read, but that's what happened.

[The_Warmth]

25. The number was misread.

IIRC, yesterday I came across the same article you're referencing. The test was done at San Fransisco 18, (Comma, assuming for a particular station that they test at) 100 percent above legal limits. The poor writing on the article made it look like 18,100 percent.