"Do not drink" order for hundreds in North GA, FBI investigating

WRCB ^ | Apr 29, 2013 | Kimberly Barbour

[Fire_on_High]

CHATSWORTH, GA (WRCB) - Hundreds of people in one north Georgia town are not allowed to drink their water.

The water treatment plant in Ramhurst is temporarily shut down after someone broke in and changed the chemical settings.

It's affecting about 400 Murray County residents. Local, state and federal officials are investigating who's to blame. Officials with Chatsworth Water Works say the source of the problems is at the Carter's Lake Water Treatment Plant in the Ramhurst area.

Saturday workers noticed someone had changed some chemical settings. First, officials issued a "boil advisory" but the Environmental Protection Department bumped it up to a total "do not drink" order and shut down the plant until they're certain it's safe for the public to consume. It could be a few more days.

[higgmeister]

Murray County Bump. My late Father-in-Law was born in Murray County.

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Chief Vann House Historic Site About North Georgia West of Chatworth, Georgia, a small town in the northwest part of the state, Georgia 225 leaves the main highway and heads south. Shortly after dipping to a stream the road rises and a dramatic brick house appears as if out of nowhere. The house has a commanding view of all land around it and a stunning view of the Cohutta Mountains, less than 10 miles to the east. This brick home is the oldest remaining structure in the northern third of the state of Georgia and its owners were leaders of the Cherokee Nation. This is near the Cherokee Capital of New Echota.

[ASA Vet]

I sitting here in the middle of 10% of the worlds fresh water so don't worry much about supply. The month of April we had the worst flooding on record. Water, water everywhere.

Here's a view looking out one of those 1st floor office windows. The window glass held.

[Califreak]

Communist plot to contaminate our precious bodily fluids...

Seriously though, I hope this gets fixed soon for the locals there.

[beelzepug]

I was Army at that time. You go where they send you. :^)

[Marcella]

“I guess it doesn’t do much good to have water under all the beds (and elsewhere) if the kids aren’t reminded that they are there and what to do.”

That’s a good reminder to keep the kids aware of emergency plans. I’m glad she asked you.

[Marcella]

....and then the New Madrid earthquake happens...

[FreedomPoster]

Apple’s. Not sure WTH I typed. I should try to recreate.

[Boogieman]

“Chlorine and ammonia are toxic substances, in any concentration.”

Well, that’s why they put the chemicals in water, because they are toxic to bacteria. However, to say “toxic in any concentration” is misleading, because our bodies just don’t work that way. You can consume pretty much any toxic substance, even something deadly like mercury or strychnine, if the amount is small enough.

Our bodies might not be able to neutralize or breakdown some toxic chemicals, but they can still be flushed from our bodies before we accumulate a sufficient concentration to cause any serious toxic effects. Obviously pets and fish have both different gastric and endocrine systems, and different body masses than us, so the level of a substance they can safely consume will be different than it is for us.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Not in our area but we filter every drop we use from the faucet through our Big Berkey water filter. Its awesome.

[Indy Pendance]

I’m so glad we’re on a well.

[B4Ranch]

The 100,000 muslim jihadi H-1B visas working in power plants, fertilizer factories, refineries, chemical manufacturers, hospitals, utilities, dams, pharmaceutical formulators, web hub server farms, municipal water supplies, sewage treatment plants need to be frequently reminded that their families will be in serious jeopardy of being eradicated if ours are in the slightest jeopardy.

[null and void]

You are not thinking like the enemy. For them it would be 'The Perfect Day'.

Note the comment about the Wiki Washing...

[Mortrey]

Thank you, null and void, for this link.

[Mortrey]

I had heard a blip on local news about this, but not much.

Thanks for posting it!!!

(LOVE your about page.)

[TEXOKIE]

WHOA! I had not heard of that. Thanks for the historical reference article.

[Fire_on_High]

Thank you...ok, to try and answer everyone:

Tolerance: Not that I’ve ever heard of. In fact, I haven’t really ever seen any obvious Muslims around here! My mother swears there’s one that occasionally shops in the store she works in, tho.

metmon: Yikes! Ramhurst really is a dinky little flyspeck and I’d wonder about the tactical sense of tipping your hand on something that small. Still, someone clearly correctly guessed a small rural plant would be poorly protected, so...

We called the water company soon as they opened to confirm fully what areas are affected, and they claim to have stepped things up considerably. Hope they’re not feeding us a line of crap!

bigg: I’m about 2 miles from that!

beelzepug: Nasty! We’ve certainly never had any issues like you describe. Water here is consistently clear and tastes fine, and we all drink it without any fancy filters. A smidge hard, but nothing more.

[greeneyes]

We get lots of water and floods here too. Still during July and August water can be in short supply. Last year all my rain barrels were empty by Mid June, and the neighbor’s well went dry.

[greeneyes]

Well, that’s why I have stored water. LOL. Oldest daughter’s reading of the info leads her to believe that our area will not likely be impacted, but I don’t agree with that.

Thanks for the reminder, though. Hubby was supposed to get some bungee cords to help secure some of the storage shelves, and he got side tracked with the garden, so I’ll have to remind him.

[Robert A Cook PE]

No.

Not treating the water kills people.

[2001convSVT]

Well done Joe 6-pack, that was just what I was thinking, LOL.