Lead?

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The stuff you don't want in your food, water, or environment.  Beside making you batty, insane if chemically induced not natural, before it does any such thing it causes one to weaken physically.  How I came about that information was... I was doing a bit of touchup regarding a childhood hobby, the fan-boy hero worship of the early explorers, whom I cheered win, lose, or draw.

This particular venture I studied ended in a total loss.  And while it is easy to suggest bad decisions, politics, and false elitist ideals were to fault, it was the same issue whether adventures succeeded or not.  The real problem was their then global warming which caused those waters to freeze over several years in a row.  Do not even take that as anything but a chuckle at modernist tomfoolery by the way.

While there were a number of problems which didn't help, including lead sealed cans, which adds sweetness, and causes exhaustion, the real problem, only one due to it stopping movement until they were far too low on food and wearied from lead, to escape.  Anyway...

What all that resulted in was a consideration.  Could lead be a problem here.  Thus digging.  The EPA, if it's politicized bureaucracy can be trusted *Flint, Michigan* one way or the other, suggests 15 ppm is their standard... though for disolved, particulate, or both I doubt if even they know or have someone in contact with the public who could tell.  Why do they have even those that remain?  Literally what good are they?  Anyway...  If the plumbing is pre-1986, which this may or may not be, lead may be used in the city water connect, pipes, and copper solder.  Okay.

Now, so, how does one test?  More looking.  There are several types of tests.  The first is purchased, tubes are filled and mailed in, and in a week one is supposed to be able to check online.  You are supposed to sign in first, to facilitate access asap.  The problem is signing up doesn't work.  Veracity of tests, access to results, everything about that was dubious.  The other type was water strips.  The problem with those?  Only tests dissolved lead.  So, how do you know?  An expert informed that... you can't know, especially with lead piping or solder or old city connect, as that can add particles at any time.

I checked whether reverse osmosis works on lead.  It does, so long as the bladder remains intact.  How do you know that?  Measure particulate in the r.o. water, then tap.  Done recently but something to keep a closer eye on.  Paranoid?  As tired as I am, no.  Bad heart and all, but this has been unusually bad, more so given my exemplary attention to the details of food, medicine, sleep, hygiene of person animals and environment (given the givens, if not bad even so).  If I am getting lead...  Though I will be removing the one possible source, mostly, shortly.


Terror indeed.  Though not really.  Not for one who has entered a grave, many times, with great hope.  The last grave I entered, His grave, I gained the greatest of hope so that life or death, here, is happily and genuinely incidental to His will.  The torments and joys just... more gifts to God's glory.  Amen.