Comments on: Gasoline Additive MTBE Threatens Long Island’s Drinking Water

By: Arri Bey, Quality Water Consultant

Arri Bey, Quality Water Consultant — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 04:52:16 +0000

This informaton isn’t anything that hasn’t been printed in a news paper, reported on the radio or reported on the tel-lie-vision. i’ve been collecting magazine & newspaper articles, books, tapes, radio & TV reports since 1988. Poison from underground gas tanks is the tip of the iceberg when it comes to contaminates in Long Islands drinking water. You can add to this discussion Nitrates (a fancy word for human & animal fecal waste) from the underground septic tanks. Or, how about the parisite Cryptosporidium thats in the water from the same source. Hey, lets not forget the Oxamyl (Vydate) from the insecticides used on potatoes (once on of LI’s main crops). Here’s one, Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) runoff from lsndfills. I have to mention this one, everyone is familiar with, chlorine, added to our water at the treatment plant. It’s reported to be responsible for over 10,000 new bladder cancer cases each year and is known to corrode copper plumbing in our homes (but it is a necessary evil). That’s just a few of the potential 87 contaminants found in drinking water, all of which each of us contributed to in one way or the other because of our lifestyle on LI. It’s easy to “blame” the next guy or sue someone, neither will solve the problem! There are simple solutions available to us. It’s too bad most of us would rather just complain.

By: Benjamin Light, Esq.

Benjamin Light, Esq. — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:03:15 +0000

Wow Paul. Are you saying that a company should not be sued for releasing thousands of gallons of gasoline underground? All the companies had to do was realize that leaving steel tanks in contact with groundwater will result in corrosion. I think I could have made that conclusion in the sixth grade.

By: Dr. Carmine F. Vasile

Dr. Carmine F. Vasile — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:24:51 +0000

MTBE isn’t the only toxin in public & private water supplies, See hundreds of SCWA well analyses @ http://www.gfxtechnology.com/LLL.html. I have radioactive Strontium-89 and Radon in SCWA wells that supply my house. Other have far more potent radioactive compounds as may be verified from this Table @ http://gfxtechnology.com/Table-A.pdf & reprint @ http://gfxtechnology.com/RAW.pdf. The well analyses should be on the SCWA Website, but they are not — they’re on CDROMs stashed in the SC Library in Bellport; located near the toxic Brookhaven landfill plume loaded with radioactive waste from BNL & Covanta’s incinerator — which has been caught burning radioactive medical waste too. To this add leachate poisoned by tons of fly ash from LILCO, KeySpan, National Grid, NYPA, BNL & Caithness power plants & MGP sites + contaminated cooling water that further pollutes our ground & drinking water.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:54:59 +0000

You can sue whomever you want. It does not change or make the oil pigs and lawyers any different. Their only concern is $$$$$$.

The air is polluted, the water is polluted, the food is polluted, their brains are polluted

Need I type more?

The government plus all oil co’s and the slobs who work for them are not concerned with the taxpayers health, they are only concerned with
how much of the taxpayers money they can suck
out of the taxpayers life.

And that will never change.
The only good thing is that the oil pigs et al will die from the same toxins that the taxpayer will.

See ya in the dirt, 6 feet under.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:28:58 +0000

How about you sue the sleazebag politicans like Chuck Schumer who were the ones that forced these companies to use MTBE in the first place in the name of FIXING GLOBAL WARMING, MTBE was used because it’s great at cleaning the air.. Now those same sleazebags are blaming the oil companies and want these companies to pay out billions.. Next time I pay $3/gallon for gasoline I will make sure to blame bottom feeders like you and other’s in your profession…

By: Benjaminj Light, Esq.

Benjaminj Light, Esq. — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:29:49 +0000

I successfully sued a major oil company for contaminating a Long Island community’s groundwater with MTBE. The extent of the contamination on Long Island is shocking – and that is coming from a guy from New Jersey! Let me know if you want to sue anybody.