#water chlorination

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"CHLORINE AND TAR GIVE WATER THAT BAD TASTE," Toronto Star. September 9, 1912. Page 1 & 13. ---- Star's Chemist Able to Produce That Flavor Which Puzzled the City Hall. ---- CHLORINE ALONE WILL NOT DO IT --- Several Sampled the Concoction, and There Was No Mistaking the Likeness. ---- IS ALL RIGHT TO-DAY ---- Cutting Down Quantity of Chlorine Has Produced Quite a Difference. ----

"The tar-covered sand boxes in each of the 12 filter beds have nothing whatever to do with the carbolic taste so apparent in the city water." - COMMISSIONER OF WORKS HARRIS. "I believe that the carbolic taste is due to the action of the chlorine in the water on the tar which was coated over the sand boxes since the plant ceased operations some months ago." - DR. HASTINGS, Μ.Ο.Η. "There may be something in the filtration plant which is causing this unpleasant taste in the water, but we don't know yet."- DR. NASMITH, DIRECTOR OF CIVIC LABORATORIES.

Chemical experts of the City Hall have failed to explain the carbolic taste which rendered the city water unpalatable last week. A temporary remedy has been found by decreasing the amount of colon-killing chlorine to the danger line; but the use of the amount of chlorine formerly employed to give sterile water may bring on water troubles at any time. No solution has therefore been reached.

In the make-up of the filtration plant the only change which has taken place since the plant was closed down for cleaning purposes is the addition of liberal coats of tor to the outside of twelve sand boxes which stand in the filter beds. Has the presence of this tar in the filter beds caused the carbolic taste? Three answers to this interesting question are given above.

Star's Chemist Produces Taste. Let the question be put in another form which to many readers may appear to convey a distinction without a difference: "Will a mixture of chlorinated water and tar give a carbolic taste?" To this question The Star can give a most positive answer in the affirmative.

Remsen's Organic Chemistry under the subject of tar says: "Wood tar, contains small quantities of carbolic acid, chemically known as phenol.

Dr. Hastings recently stated: "The difference in the taste of carbolic acid and of chlorine is as great as light is from darkness."

Both these statements are amply borne out by the experiments of a chemical student of the University of Toronto, who devoted Saturday afternoon in The Star office to the mixing of water, chlorine, and tar, in varying quantities. For three hours The Star's chemist continued to make mysterious movements with a series of test tubes, mixing bowls, and his own organs of taste and smell. He then emerged with a quantity of what appeared to be ordinary drinking water in a test tube. It was his treat, and the receptacle was passed around the office for each man to take a nip, and a nip was as good as three fingers.

"Water gone bad again?" asked one.

"Same old carbolic taste," said another.

No Mistaking Flavor. All agreed that the taste was identical with that found in the city water on Thursday and Friday. The chemist explained that this flavor had produced by mixing water and chloride of lime in the ratio about two parts of chloride lime to about 1,000,000 parts of water, and one part of tar to about 3,000 parts of water. The tar used was in liquid form. whereas the tar found in the filtration plant is hardened. This is the only difference in conditions in the filtration plant mixture and in The Star Office laboratory.

The Experiment Without Tar. Five persons detected the carbolic taste in the first sample. An experiment was then made without tar, but with ten times the amount of chloride of lime used in the previous experiment. There was absolutely no carbolic taste; but the chlorine experiment had a decidedly different taste from that of the former mixture.

Differing causes may bring the same results. These experiments establish the fact that tar, chlorine, and water, produce a concoction similar in taste to that mixture which was recently served up to the citizen through his house tap. These same ingredients are to be found in the filtration plant. Whether they were the cause of the carbolic taste so apparent a few days, the civic chemists must be left to decide.

How Water is Chlorinated. That the bad taste in the water for the past few days did not develop at the chlorination plant is the opinion of the men who have charge of the water-drugging process which is stationed about 200 yards across from the ferry dock at Hanlan's Point. The chlorination goes on steadily and the men say there has been nothing wrong with the plant.

The chloride of lime that "purifies" Toronto's drinking water, does not go in in the solid state. It is first dissolved and the solution is then run in from a tank. The pipe from the filtration plant to the John Street Pumping Station runs straight from the plant to the Chlorination Station, opposite the ferry dock, and thence across to John street. Out on the sand bar where the little isolated shed stands, a man is kept constantly on duty attending to the chlorination of the water.

Three Men On Duty. Three men divide the work into three eight-hour shifts. Their work consists chiefly in making the chlorine solution, and keeping the tank full. Making the solution is simply a matter of mixing the hypo-chloric powder in water, and this concoction is slowly but steadily run into the great pipe that conveys the water across the bay. Thus every gallon of water gets a little drop of the chemical. None of it escapes, but the result for the past week has not been good water. At the chlorination plant they say it has been working steadily for months without interruption, and if that is so the blame cannot well be laid on the men who watch the machine that drugs the water.

"Fine To-day," Says M. O. Н. "The water is fine this morning," said Dr. Hastings, M.O.Н., to The Star. "We have had no complaints this morning about the taste." The Doctor stated that they were using about the same proportion of chlorine to-day as on Saturday when the proportion was 112 per million.

[kaijutegu]

If you've ever wondered if my swimming tegu gets in the water voluntarily: yes and good luck keeping her out of it.

[reality-detective]

Chlorine in Tap Water - Watch How Fast It Absorbs into Your Skin 🤔

[queenbeedarling]

(Gif from @juliawvicker)

Other people, probably: Aww, that's so romantic/cute!

Me: Hurry, you're gonna drown! Is that what you want on your gravestone?! Huh!? Death by kiss drowning!?

[howdoyousleep3]

never in my life have i wanted a Daddy more than i do rn 😭

[nuheyenuh]

Dudleya sp. and Philotes sonorensis

[sqrkyclean]

There’s a lot of symbolism in that Malibu was raised around freshwater rivers and almost drowned in them bc she was being neglected and now she will only swim in the sea (saltwater) and her pool (chlorine)

[frogayyyy]

went swimming (in the sea!!!!!) for the first time in YEARS my crops are watered my skin is clear my sinuses are inflamed 🥰

[seeminglyseph]

I know everyone hates M Knight Shyamalan's The Village, and "oooh it's modern day all along" seems like a lame twist, but consider:

A) wool cloaks fuck and that's always a cool look and I won't apologize for the fact that I definitely just wanted to wear cloaks instead of coats even though I live somewhere that experiences winters in Hardcore Mode and that was not viable

And B) the concept that your parents decided for you that you had to live in a dangerous and reductive environment and raised you on fear and punishment and secrecy because they hated the way society was developing and didn't want you to have access or choice was like. Extremely real fore as someone raised Catholic with multiple friends raised either Jehovah's Witness or Mormon. Like, obviously, it was extremely exaggerated as a 2000s horror-thriller type movie, but like.

It's no Lady in the Water. I honestly haven't seen The Village in a bit, but in concept, I think it does make sense as a cult movie. It's just that too much is like... "oooo it's a twist!" Rather than, like... "damn, the adults of this movie have a cult compound that they have used to isolate, indoctrinate, and control their children, literally creating and becoming monsters that haunt and torment them to keep them in line to maintain a way of life in line with their own moral values"

And like. If you look at it through the lens of like. The emotional impact of how much betrayal goes on within the film in the families and the cult and for the children who had no choice to be there and no information, like. That's much more impactful than simply "it was modern day all along"

It's "your parents have been lying to you all along, and all of your pain and fear has served no greater purpose. Half of these rules were not to keep you safe. They were to make you obey, and you have no way of knowing which are which. The people you trust have deeply and intentionally fractured your relationship with reality as a way to keep you contained and docile and under control. You have been betrayed on the most fundamental level by the people who were supposed to raise you and guard you and keep you safe."

And that's like. That's good horror that sticks in the back of your brain forever? Idk. Maybe my imaginary Village is better than the real Village but like. I think it's a better movie than it gets credit for.

And I want more excuses to wear wool cloaks, like damn.

[columboscreens]

its Bumbo Bsunday yet again and im FINALLY getting to see the esteemed troubled waters yippee yay yahoo ⛴️ 😳

it's still august which means it's prime time to enjoy columbo being at his smallest and sweatiest and summeriest showing more and more skin as the episode progresses until he's completely naked

and by completely naked i mean in a conga line wearing a brown polyester hawaiian shirt

[pilgrimattinkercreek1974]

Blog as confessional moment look away or dont ^-^

[mindblowingscience]

In a unique study carried out in drinking water pipes in Sweden, researchers from Lund University and the local water company tested what would happen if chlorine was omitted from drinking water. The result? An increase in bacteria, of course, but after a while something surprising happened: a harmless predatory bacteria grew in numbers and ate most of the other bacteria. The study suggests that chlorine is not always needed if the filtration is efficient—and that predatory bacteria could perhaps be used to purify water in the future. Just as human intestines contain a rich bacterial flora, many types of bacteria thrive in our drinking water and the pipes that transport them. On the inside of pipe walls is a thin, slippery coating, called a biofilm, which protects and supports bacteria. These bacteria have adapted to life in the presence of chlorine, which otherwise has the primary task to kill bacteria, particularity bacteria that can make humans sick.

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[kaijutegu]

She sure does love pool days.

[adhbabey]

I didn't know my head could be so quiet.

In a traumatic space, where I'm unaware of my identity and myself, confused why my alters won't front. The whole time, I was thinking, "Why isn't anyone fronting? Why isn't anyone coming to save me? Why am I alone right now in my thoughts?" And I don't know if I even realized how dissociated I was from everyone, that I couldn't feel or hear anything because the trauma was so intense.

It is said that systems lose activity in a safe space, but I feel like that could be not said for this situation that I experienced very recently. I couldn't hear or think of anyone in my head. I felt as though some alters were rather close. My co-host, Rai, two of my protectors, Damien and Tsuki. But I couldn't perceive any of them, nor could I perceive myself. It was like I wasn't real, and wasn't really me.

All my friends and people around me were real. I remembered them, as best as I could, I knew who they were. But I was in a cycle of self loathing and loneliness. I felt so disconnected from everyone around me. I still feel afraid to reach out. I don't want to be harassed and abused again.

My head is still swimming, I am numb and in pain. I am reaching for a light to come and heal me. I still don't know where I am. I still don't know who I am. But I lived through several days of repeated trauma. And I'm terrified and numb at the same time.

I'm scared, I'm suicidal, I feel alone there. I'm decompressing, and slowly realizing how tense I was the entire time. I feel like I'm able to understand that I wasn't able to really feel anything. I don't know if I fully processed what happened to me, and why I am experiencing the way I am right now.

But trauma is so fucked up. And I didn't realize my whole body becomes so dissociated when I'm in it. So much so that I don't notice the others inside my own head.

[stolligaseptember]

guess who's got an ~inflamed auditory tube~

again.

[lady-zephyrine]

Some outsiders would think that bathing in the Fountain of Dreams is considered some kind of taboo. However, not only are most Dream Landers fine with you bathing in the water it's actually highly encouraged, as it's believed that bathing would not only help with giving you a good night's sleep, it would also help keep the nightmares away.

There is a small amount of Dream Matter in the Fountain of Dreams, but it's not enough to hurt or corrupt anybody.