"Environmental officials in Iowa discovered the issue after residents complained. At the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids, neighbors living along a creek noticed the water had turned bright orange. At Des Moines International Airport, neighbors reported water that had a green, cloudy tint with a chemical odor"
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Excreted Tamiflu found in rivers
Hell, you don't need a flu shot, America; just drink a glass of tap water.
"EPA seeks to limit plane deicing runoff; Chemicals used turn waterways hazardous" by Melanie E. Welte, Associate Press | September 30, 2009
DES MOINES - Every winter, airports across the country spray millions of gallons of deicing chemicals onto airliners and allow the runoff to trickle away. When the chemicals end up in nearby waterways, the deicing fluid can turn streams bright orange and create dead zones for aquatic life.
That can't be good for you, human.
The practice is legal.... “We normally don’t think of airports as one of our major polluting facilities,’’ said Chuck Corell, water quality bureau chief with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. “I think it’s safe to say that for years it was unchecked.’’
Not every airport lets the chemicals drain off the tarmac uncollected, but those that do range from some of the nation’s largest - including John F. Kennedy in New York and Chicago’s O’Hare - to small regional airports such as the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids. Both activists and federal environmental officials say the chemicals slowly create waterways that won’t support life.
“Here you have millions of gallons a year of this deicing chemical running off untreated directly into that bay,’’ said Larry Levine, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, which sued New York over deicing chemicals that flow from JFK into the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. “Anything that can’t swim away is going to die.’’
Hey, it's the airline industry; overlook it.
Of course, we got to slap a carbon tax on you, 'murkn!
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The two main types of deicing fluids - propylene glycol and ethylene glycol - are not generally seen as a threat to human health.
Then you drink a glass.
Ethylene glycol, which also is used in antifreeze, is generally only toxic in humans if ingested.
Think about that the next time you turn on the tap for a nice, big, cool glass of water.
Propylene glycol is a generally recognized as safe additive for foods and medications, according to the US Food and Drug Administration.
Isn't that what was in the Chinese fish that created such controversy a couple of years ago?
Under the EPA’s proposed regulations, six of the nation’s 14 major airports that are the biggest users of deicing fluid - JKF, O’Hare, Cleveland-Hopkins International, Newark Liberty International in New Jersey, Boston Logan International, and LaGuardia Airport in New York - would have to install deicing “pads’’ or other collection systems to contain 60 percent of fluid sprayed....
So not only do they let terrorists board airplanes, they are major poluuters and wreckers of the environment, Bah-stahn!
Under existing rules, adopted in the 1990s, airports are required to minimize contamination of stormwater runoff and must monitor for pollutants, including deicing fluid. Some states have required additional measures when reports showed high levels of the chemicals. Environmental officials in Iowa discovered the issue after residents complained. At the Eastern Iowa Airport in Cedar Rapids, neighbors living along a creek noticed the water had turned bright orange. At Des Moines International Airport, neighbors reported water that had a green, cloudy tint with a chemical odor.
Yeah, that would tend to draw my attention -- especially the orange water!
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