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Water crisis in Salem, Oregon!

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There's currently a water crisis where I live in Salem, you can read about it here:

https://www.statesmanjournal.com/st...d-children-advised-avoid-tap-water/654066002/

This has of course created something of a hysteria. People are panicked it seems, and every store in town is sold out of bottled water, even the cities up to 30 miles away are sold out as well.

Local retailers who are getting more shipments of bottled water in are selling them for insane prices. The grocery store down the road from me got a shipment in today and they had marked the 12-pack cases of water up to $27.95 for a 12 pack!

See more here:
http://katu.com/news/local/concerns...as-salem-tap-water-advisory-remains-in-effect

All over the internet people are driving as far as 100 miles away, getting bottled water, bringing it back, and selling it for up to $47 for a case! The worst part is... people are paying it!

Want to know the funny thing about all of this? For one, they said the water is only unsafe for children under 6 and people with fragile immune systems.

For two, the city of Salem is affected, but the city right next door to us (literally right next door) is Keizer, and they get their water from a different source.

So, what would be the smart thing to do? Take a few jugs, drive up to Keizer, and use a faucet up there.

I did exactly that. Took my 5 gallon carrier, filled it up at a friends house, and that was that.

It's just pretty amusing to watch this. I'm not kidding when I say people are panicked. The stores look like they've been ransacked and everywhere online is just mass hysteria it seems.

Sheesh... I am going to have to come up with some sort of rain water collection system for next year so that I can just store rain water.
 
I thought there were laws in place to prevent raising prices during a crisis.
 
Daryl said:
I thought there were laws in place to prevent raising prices during a crisis.
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There are, looks like people aren't abiding by them.

The Shell gas station near me is selling cases for $55! People are actually buying them too!
 
Chris said:
There are, looks like people aren't abiding by them.

The Shell gas station near me is selling cases for $55! People are actually buying them too!
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It’s certainly not morally correct for a business to do that. Doesn’t take much to panic the public does it.
 
Daryl said:
It’s certainly not morally correct for a business to do that. Doesn’t take much to panic the public does it.
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Nope, it really doesn't. They're treating this as if it's the end of the world.

I think a lot of businesses are going to be facing some heat. I read that countless numbers of people are reporting them to the government, and the laws in Oregon clearly state:

Merchants and wholesalers are not allowed to increase their prices by more than 15 percent of the item’s value, even prior to the governor’s declaration.

Exceptions include:
  • Additional costs imposed by suppliers.
  • Added expenses for the business to procure the essential goods or services due to the emergency. For example, the supplies had to be airlifted into an otherwise inaccessible area.
  • Increased internal costs or expenses related to the declaration such as overtime pay, additional staff, security, distribution, etc.
  • Scheduled price or cost increases unrelated to the abnormal disruption of the market.
 
Davidtj said:
I’ve been to Oregon a bunch of times would not be afraid to drink out some of those streams up in the mountains. Most likely less stuff in it then what city gives you
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Agreed completely. The water in Oregon is for the most part very good.
 
MikeM said:
Would the water filters such as the Katadyn pump system take care of he toxins I wonder/???? If so most would could have drinkable water then
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Not entirely sure. They said boiling it could just make it worse, but nothing about a filter.
 
MikeM said:
Would the water filters such as the Katadyn pump system take care of the toxins I wonder/???? If so most would could have drinkable water then
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No, cyanotoxins can't be removed by boiling or filtration. @Chris has the right idea. A couple of 5 gallon jugs filled outside the system.
 
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Chris said:
There's currently a water crisis where I live in Salem, you can read about it here:

https://www.statesmanjournal.com/st...d-children-advised-avoid-tap-water/654066002/

This has of course created something of a hysteria. People are panicked it seems, and every store in town is sold out of bottled water, even the cities up to 30 miles away are sold out as well.

Local retailers who are getting more shipments of bottled water in are selling them for insane prices. The grocery store down the road from me got a shipment in today and they had marked the 12-pack cases of water up to $27.95 for a 12 pack!

See more here:
http://katu.com/news/local/concerns...as-salem-tap-water-advisory-remains-in-effect

All over the internet people are driving as far as 100 miles away, getting bottled water, bringing it back, and selling it for up to $47 for a case! The worst part is... people are paying it!

Want to know the funny thing about all of this? For one, they said the water is only unsafe for children under 6 and people with fragile immune systems.

For two, the city of Salem is affected, but the city right next door to us (literally right next door) is Keizer, and they get their water from a different source.

So, what would be the smart thing to do? Take a few jugs, drive up to Keizer, and use a faucet up there.

I did exactly that. Took my 5 gallon carrier, filled it up at a friends house, and that was that.

It's just pretty amusing to watch this. I'm not kidding when I say people are panicked. The stores look like they've been ransacked and everywhere online is just mass hysteria it seems.

Sheesh... I am going to have to come up with some sort of rain water collection system for next year so that I can just store rain water.
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It's illegal to catch rain water in TN
Crazy lol
 
Reading stories like this make me pretty glad I live in Michigan, where we have more fresh water than pretty much anywhere. It's pretty easy to get clean water, as long as we humans haven't effed it up with ground pollution, like in Rockford, or with municipal and government incompetence, like in Flint.

For the most part, we pump our water right out of the ground, no reservoirs needed. The town I live in has two towers and pumping stations for about 4500 people.
 
Squatch said:
That's f'd-up...
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I'm pretty sure that CO is the same. The only rule we have here concerning rain water is I'm not allowed to divert it on the ground in any manner that adversely affects my downhill neighbors. Fortunately my only downhill neighbor is a semi dry creek bed and eventually the city of Canyon Lake and given their attitude towards us, I would gladly piss in the stream 10 times a day if I could be assured it would make it to their water supply, but sadly it won't.
 
Oregon doesn't have a law against catching rain water to my knowledge. I'll have to look into it for this Winter. Maybe I can come up with some sort of system to catch and filter it.
 
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