The committee I heard from is a neighborhood group that's been attempting to identify environmental problems that might be causing the "unusual" health issues being experienced in the neighborhood. The city replaced the water main servicing our neighborhood last year and they've installed several new septic and storm sewer lines. We've had an ongoing problem with storm water backup when there are heavy storms or snow melt-aways. Supposedly in the past there have been a number of algae blooms in the neighborhood ponds that resulted in some serious health threats (to people and animals) and the city required that the ponds be treated with some type of chemicals to control the algae. Initially I don't think anyone believed it was really a health hazard...now everyone's rethinking that...
Only a few of us in the neighborhood speak the M word - we've all had similar symptoms and have suspected some connection to the water. One person said last summer he had the creepy-crawlies on his lower legs for days and it wouldn't stop no matter how many showers or baths he took - he finally poured a bottle of alcohol over his legs after his shower one morning to try and make it stop - what came off his legs was this grey lint-like stuff which he thinks was a fungal growth. He said the creepy crawly feeling actually went away for awhile, but he's continued to have health problems.
I know that my life was like a sci-fi movie for quite some time. Things are much better now.
Like I said, I can't say how reliable this info is. I just thought that if it might help someone it was worth putting out there.  |