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Lead in Drinking Water

GerardKeating

First it was Cyptro, now lead...

Story on RTE news

Note on Council Website..

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_Whimsical_

I'd say we can expect this story to be completely burried. Lead contamination of water in pre 1970s builds will affect the entire country to some degree and fixing it will be an expense our present Government won't be able to bear now. In the UK and across Europe they had Lead Pipe Replacement Schemes during the 1990s where their Governments and Local Authorities gave grants to replace lead piping.Yet in Ireland when we might've had the money for a replacement scheme we put our plumbers to better use ensuring our property bubble didn't burst until it could cause maximum damage :rolleyes:

Maybe a replacement scheme could create some employment in the future of course.It looks like it might be a long wait though.In the meantime we can all keep Ballygowan in business.:(

galah

snubbleste wrote: »

TG4 just had a report on the news saying that lead pipes are contaminating the water supply in more homes than originally thought. Tests were carried out in all areas of town and they found new areas where water had lead content.
These include the city centre area, taylors hill, salthill and newcastle.

I was always suspicious of the fact that it was 'only' Mervue and Shantalla - sure, they'd have to test every house to check for lead to get the real figures, right?

masonman

hada wrote: »

i'm in shantalla. have been drinking the water for well, the last 4 years.

so far - no lead poisioning..... In fact, I feel great.

Maybe I'm turning into some super hero with lead based powers

Lead Man the power to weigh anything down - anytime, anywhere.

I can see the graphic novels now!...

"At very high levels, lead poisoning can cause convulsions, coma and death"

ehhhh......does that include comedy death?? :pac:

snubbleste

TG4 just had a report on the news saying that lead pipes are contaminating the water supply in more homes than originally thought. Tests were carried out in all areas of town and they found new areas where water had lead content.
These include the city centre area, taylors hill, salthill and newcastle.

Krieg

Perrin wrote: »

Could the water be used for lets say......boiling spuds?

hmmm If it was me I would

Disclaimer: Im no medical professional or affiliated with any medical organization. My beliefs are my own and not that of Boards.ie ltd

Now... You can't sue me

Perrin

Could the water be used for lets say......boiling spuds?

Krieg

Perrin wrote: »

Is it safe to drink the water yet?

After cysto, lead and now talk of legionaires in the hospital water
Would you really want to drink it even if it was declared safe?

Okay I admit I use tap water for the kettle, But I don't think I will ever drink tap water from this city again

Perrin

Is it safe to drink the water yet?

s_carnage

SimpleSam06 wrote: »

Email : publicanalystlab@whb.ie

EDIT: That email address doesn't exist, apparently there is no whb.ie. Brilliant.

Just change the whb to hse to get the updated e-mail address.

SimpleSam06

Robbo wrote: »

Didn't they say in one of the local papers last week that they were swamped with unsolicited samples from the public and it was stopping them doing more urgent work?

They seemed pretty relaxed when I called them... Still you're right, people should just suck it up and take the lead poisoning like the manliest of men.

Robbo

galwaybabe wrote: »

As far as I know, the place for getting your water tested is called the Public Analysts's Lab and it is based at NUIG Hospital

Didn't they say in one of the local papers last week that they were swamped with unsolicited samples from the public and it was stopping them doing more urgent work?

SimpleSam06

galwaybabe wrote: »

What!!!!!!!!

Turned out that was copper pipes from the hot tank. You live and learn ha.

SimpleSam06

galwaybabe wrote: »

What!!!!!!!!

Yup, a nice royal blue colour, centred around where the water was hitting it. I found that lab by the way, if anyone else is worried.

Galway Public Analyst's Laboratory

Seamus Quirke Road
University College Hospital
Co. Galway
Republic of Ireland

Telephone : 00 353 91 581122
Fax : 00 353 91 581212
Email : publicanalystlab@whb.ie

I'll be giving them a buzz tomorrow to find out how to bottle up some of the water and send it to them.

EDIT: That email address doesn't exist, apparently there is no whb.ie. Brilliant.

Chris_533976

The sign for that was always "Public Analysts Laboratory".

Some picked the letters off the sign so that it read "Anal Laboratory"

galwaybabe

As far as I know, the place for getting your water tested is called the Public Analysts's Lab and it is based at NUIG Hospital

galwaybabe

SimpleSam06 wrote: »

Anyone got a link to or email for the people meant to be testing the water? We had an interesting experience with chicken that turned blue under running water the last day...

What!!!!!!!!

SimpleSam06

Andrea B. wrote: »

SimpleSam06, that may not be lead related. The chicken might not have been able to breath, and hence turned blue from lack of oxygen?

Oooh, I knew there was a chicken choking joke in there somewhere!

Andrea B.

Anyone got a link to or email for the people meant to be testing the water? We had an interesting experience with chicken that turned blue under running water the last day...

SimpleSam06, that may not be lead related. The chicken might not have been able to breath, and hence turned blue from lack of oxygen?

SimpleSam06

Anyone got a link to or email for the people meant to be testing the water? We had an interesting experience with chicken that turned blue under running water the last day...

Andrea B.

.........or if you're the Mayor, grab 5 of your councillor buddies and head to Alicante. Official biz of course

trish23

Crypto, Lead, Legionnaires....Think it's time to head for the hills, lads...

Pgibson

chrussell wrote: »

I was fishing in the river the other day and I think I found the source of the lead...

Its a bad habit to bite the end of your pencil.

Stop it at once.

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ethernet

LOL, but there's no lead in pencils! Are you telling us we also have graphite in the water now as well?

chrussell

I was fishing in the river the other day and I think I found the source of the lead...

Bass Cadet

22 councils around the country now reporting excessively high levels of lead in water system in certain areas...

georgelowden

lead pipes were also used in council houses in kerry and as far I know they are still the same .
that would be older type non cavity type houses ,I'm shure the same build is all over the country.
led is bad stuff, it effects the liver, kidneys ,brain .to name a few unessential bits of the body.
As I grew up in one of these flucking things I hope that I can sue the morons .

_Whimsical_

Sorry to hear about your dog Krieg.

It was on the news tonight that the outdoor "safe water" system set up this week in the Mervue area was also contanimated with 4 times the EU acceptable level of lead. A Galway city councillor on the news said that this water supply had been plumbed directly from cast iron piping. If that's true it raises serious questions about whether you can reasonably blame the piping in the houses for the lead pollution at all.

Krieg

Last week our dog died of kidney failure, 4 days later our neighbours dog died of kidney failure. Right now Im calling it coincidence

anyone able to tell me when housing in Renmore was built?

ive read their leaflet and I am unable to view our pipes due to the way the house was constructed. regardless we are on bottled water

renedescartes

Hi Justmary,
Yout local Council are supposed to be testing the water on a regular basis to ensure it meets EU laid down standards. The guys in galway after what they have been through in the past are it seems more vigilant then the rest of the country and hey presto the problem surfaces in Galway. The sad thing is that nobody is asking the hard questions.....Has any other Council found lead contamination in the water?..........the answer is yes!

Mrs OBumble

renedescartes wrote: »

As I said I think this problem is more wide spread.

Me to.

What's really exercising my mind is how the HSE came to be testing for lead in water in individual houses. I can understand water-quality testing in public supplies, but if someone knocked on my door and said they were here to test the water, I'd assume that they were one of the water filter companies doing some "market research" and give them an answer involving sex and travel.

(I don't know about here, but the filter companies really were pulling stunts like this in Co Cork last year: first they sent you a letter referring to their recent tests on your supply, then they sent a sales-rep to your door to repeat the test. Then the sales spiel started.)

Now it seems that the HSE has been testing inside houses. So there must be more to the story - something has prompted them to do this.