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The date was April 25, 2007. 12,000 residents in Spencer, Massachusetts awakened and began their day as usual. Showers were taken as usual, but that is when things changed suddenly.
People stepped out of their showers with skin burning and itching. Within minutes, hospitals began receiving patients with skin irritations and moderate burns over their bodies.
About 100 residents were taken to hospitals as the warning rang out – Don’t touch or use your tap water!
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People were told to throw away all food or drink made with the Drinking Water. It was reported that people began brushing their teeth,
only to feel their mouth begin to burn. Instinctively, they tried to rinse away the burn with water - and increased the problem.
[B]Corrosive Lye in Drinking Water
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The problem was corrosive lye - sodium hydroxide. Since the same water flowing from shower heads was flowing from kitchen taps, there was corrosive lye in Drinking Water. Corrosive lye in Drinking Water from the municipal water supply.
Officials quickly determined that there had been some malfunction at the town’s water treatment plant. Too much lye had been released into Drinking Water.
[B]Lye in Drinking Water?
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To many, it came as a shock that the city was routinely dumping lye into their Drinking Water. They had no idea that lye was being put into water to reduce its acidity.
They did not know lye was added to keep the city’s pipes from corroding so rapidly.
Contact with lye in high concentration can cause serious burns, scarring, and even blindness. That is why Hollywood inserts the misuse of lye into movie and TV programs where grim results are desired.
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Highly caustic lye is used as a drain cleaner, and most people do not expect to have lye in Drinking Water.
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Is there lye in Drinking Water that flows from your kitchen tap? Is there fluoride? Chlorine? Bacteria? How can you learn what is in your Drinking Water?
Most cities publish an annual Drinking Water quality report. It is seldom mailed to customers, however. You will have to call your Director of Public Works, or go to your City Hall to get a copy.
Expect the annual Drinking Water quality report to be favorable to the water treatment plant. All they must show is that they have met the EPA guidelines.
If you want more detail, call the Environmental Protection Agencys Safe
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