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February 22, 2005

Toledo Well Users Sickend by Polluted Water

toledo02.jpg As reported in the San Jose Mercury News, by the Associated Press, Only municipal water users in the Lake Erie resort area, South Bass Island, were spared the intestinal illnesses due to the serious well pollution there.

The Ohio State Health Department said that some 1,400 people were sickened visiting the resort area last summer due to wells being tainted when porous soil allowed sewage from septic systems and runoff containing bird droppings and lawn fertilizer to infiltrate groundwater.

While most vacation homes and businesses catering to tourists draw their drinking water from the municipal system - which tested negative for contamination after the outbreak - about 400 draw water from wells.

As I have always said, your most healthy water is municipal water, straight or filtered, even beyond bottled water.

Posted by Stephen Betheil at February 22, 2005 09:41 PM

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