This is the water in Tuckerman Arkansas today

[TalkingDog]

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I am appalled.

Goddamn all the people responsible for this travesty.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

2. What can you do with water like that?

Disgusting and shameful!

[bvar22]

4. What can you do with water like that?

Heat your home in the Winter?

Actually, My Wife & I are watching this closely.
We moved to rural Arkansas in 2006 to get away from stuff like this.
Luckily, there is no drilling, pipelines, coal, or gas reserves in this area.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

5. It's a deplorable situation....

The water wars will be here sooner than we think!

[flyingfysh]

7. Are you sure about no coal reserves in your area of Arkansas?

My grandfather used to run a coal mine, until it went bankrupt in the Depression. He always told me that there was enough coal in Arkansas alone to satisfy the energy needs of the whole country for a hundred years. And not too far from his house, there was an oil well in the middle of a field. Every time I passed it, I could see a flame at the top where excess natural gas was burned off.

This was in western Arkansas, near Fort Smith.

But for picturesque areas, you can't beat northwest Arkansas (Ozarks). And look up Eureka Springs on the web, it's worth a visit.

[bvar22]

14. We are pretty sure.

We did the necessary research.
Ft Smith is in the middle of an active gas field that stretches eastward to central Arkansas.
We are quite a bit to the south,
and only 3 test wells have ever been drilled in our county,
and they were Plugged and Abandoned.

No coal has ever been produced in this county.

Still, there is no way to be absolutely certain.
An on property source of abundant clean water was at the top of our list.

The Ozarks are beautiful, especially this time of the year.
We chose further south, the Ouachita Mountains west of Mena for the longer growing season and better deals on pristine property.

[rhett o rick]

37. It would be great if someone would invent something that could

get the energy out of that liquid. Even if "broke even" (used as much energy as it produced) it would be wonderful for clean ups. But be hard to do w/o any polluting byproducts.

Just rambling.

[dixiegrrrrl]

6. Bottle it up and leave it at the door of the Exxon honchos.

Right after you collect a bunch of bottles for your lawsuit
along with the film of the stuff pouring out of the tap
and send some to be analysed.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

9. I'd like to force them to drink it....

Water is so essential to life...how dare they pollute it to this extent? I am so sick of the anything for a profit attitude.

[WinkyDink]

10. No "so" about it.

[xtraxritical]

28. Put a wick in the bottle light it with a bic and throw it at the Exxon Mobile pricks.

[Art_from_Ark]

34. Just for clarification, this is Tuckerman, not Mayflower, Arkansas

Tuckerman is a small town in Jackson County, about 75 miles from Mayflower (Faulkner County), where the oil spill occurred.

[bluestate10]

24. Nothing. It is poisoned for a long, long time. Exxon must be held accountable. nt

[Sekhmets Daughter]

25. Absolutely!

I have reached the point where I actually hate the entire industry.

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. ugh. ewww.

[Auntie Bush]

8. Can't drink it, can't bathe in it, can't cook with it. Hell, can't even water the lawn with it!

I thought all those microbes got rid of the oil. No problem.

[Blanks]

11. Blame it on this guy...

and help out whatever candidate is running against him in 2014.

[OnyxCollie]

21. Tim Griffin

U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins was forced to resign on December 20, 2006. Mr. Cummins’ replacement, Tim Griffin, was appointed to the position five days earlier (Arkansas Times, 2006). Mr. Griffin had previously worked for the Republican National Committee and had been an opposition researcher for presidential advisor Karl Rove (Satter, 2006).

Arkansas Times. (2006, December 28). End around. Arkansas Times. Retrieved November 26, 2008, from http://www.arktimes.com

Satter, L. (2006, December 16). Prosecutor post is filled in recess. Arkansas Democrat Gazette. Retrieved November 26, 2008, from http://www.nwanews.com/adg/news/175895 /

[joshokc]

12. The Real Story

http://www.kait8.com/story/21672316/brown-water-pops-up-again-in-tuckerman-neighborhood

[TalkingDog]

16. What, exactly, about my post was inaccurate?

Please elucidate one post guy.

[ReRe]

26. Consider the source...

... 1 post wonder. Exon damage control troll?

[greyl]

31. It was misleading by omission. "A fire hydrant shook loose deposits of iron and manganese"

The explanation in the linked article here is plausible, and you should be thanking the person for adding credible information to your thread.

edit: I mean the linked article has even more pictures of the brown water fercrissakes! Way to go.

[TalkingDog]

38. I did not add nor omit commentary. My intention was not to mislead. If it is taken as such.

So be it.

[JimDandy]

45. Why didn't you add a comment?

Had you done so, noone would have gone down the wrong path. It means I'm not likely to pay attention to your next OP.

So be it.

[pacalo]

46. The article also says that the water problems have gone on for months.

"Tuckerman's brown water is well known in this area," Ledbetter said. "Until we get it fixed, this community is going to have a bad reputation."

[ohiosmith]

27. This post was alerted on. The jury voted 5/1 to let it stand!

At Tue Apr 9, 2013, 10:00 PM an alert was sent on the following post:

The Real Story
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=2644740

REASON FOR ALERT:

This post is disruptive, hurtful, rude, insensitive, over-the-top, or otherwise inappropriate. (See <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=aboutus#communitystandards" target="_blank">Community Standards</a>.)

ALERTER'S COMMENTS:

newb trolling on Exxon's behalf it looks like

You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Tue Apr 9, 2013, 10:09 PM, and the Jury voted 1-5 to LEAVE IT.

Juror #1 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #2 voted to HIDE IT and said: One post troll! IF not a newbie, I would have voted otherwise.
Juror #3 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #4 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #5 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given
Juror #6 voted to LEAVE IT ALONE and said: No explanation given

Thank you very much for participating in our Jury system, and we hope you will be able to participate again in the future.

[Purrfessor]

30. Someone posts a link to a news story about the event in question...

A link to a story that explains the probable causes for the discolored water, and it draws an alert? That does not make sense to me. So what if the poster has one post. It was a link to a local news story. How is it possible that some folks on this board know more about what is going on in Tuckerman than the actual people who live in Tuckerman? An Exxon conspiracy? in Tuckerman? Really?

[Seeking Serenity]

42. Oh, come on, it makes perfect sense (for DU sometimes)

Some folk clearly thought (hoped?) there was a connection between the discolored water in Tuckerman and the pipeline spill (after all, it is Arkansas and obviously events in Arkansas cannot happen independently of one another in a small state like that. So when someone posts a local-source news story showing that it's NOT related, and given that that was the poster's first post, someone immediately saw it as trollish (how dare my righteous indignation be disturbed by being dis-proven??)

[ohiosmith]

43. :

[JimDandy]

44. So the OP leaves out pertinent info

and the Jury doesn't even read the article at the link.

Come on folks...let's get properly informed so we can make accurate decisions and pertinent comments.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

13. Frack fracking!

[bluedigger]

15. Could be the same reason as this.

Some Cortez residents may have been surprised to find a stream of orange water coming out of their faucets on Thursday.

The city flushes water that comes in from the water treatment plant every spring. The flushing can stir the water up and create a layer of biofilm, which causes the water to change color, said Don Royce, with the city's Public Works Department.

The biofilm is harmless, Royce said, and should settle down this morning. Only a few places in the city saw the orange water, including on Main Street, East Second Street and South Valley Road, as well as the area near City Park.http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20130404/NEWS01/130409900/-1/News01/City's-orange-water-is--off-color-but-not-unsafe

I'm not saying their water supply doesn't suck, but there could be a reasonable explanation, too.

[Arkansas Granny]

17. Is this due to the oil spill or fracking? How far is Mayflower from Tuckerman?

[Art_from_Ark]

35. Mayflower's about 75 miles from Tuckerman

[Arkansas Granny]

39. I see that I wasn't the only one who jumped to the conclusion that this was related to the

Mayflower oil spill. I'm glad that one poster set us straight.

[WillyT]

18. K & R !!!

[dem in texas]

19. North Pole Alaska

We lived near North Pole, Alaska during the 1960's and we had a well and had brown water although it was not as brown as the water show in the picture. I could not wash clothes in the water, I had to go in to Fairbanks to the Laundromat to wash clothes. The water was tested and was safe, but it tasted terrible . I learned to drink hot tea then because it covered the taste of the water. It stained everything. I think it was iron in the water. I used lots of Zudd to clean stains left by the water. But, here I am in 2013 and still alive and kicking.

[DallasNE]

20. This Can't Be From The Mayflower, Arkansas Spill

Because of the geography of Arkansas. These towns are 60 miles apart, plus Tuckerman is in a general uphill direction from Mayflower. Something else is the source of the problem in Tuckerman.

[blaze]

22. Talkingdog... do you have a link to share?

I'd be happy to share a link

[TalkingDog]

23. It's from Facebook: Eva Norris Henriksen posted it initally.

If you don't have Facebook I don't know what to suggest.

[spanone]

29. chocolate milk?

[SidDithers]

32. Is that related to the oil spill, or not?...nt

Sid

[druidity33]

36. in the link upthread...

county/municipal officials are saying the water is safe, this has happened before, that it's excess iron and manganese, and that the water treatment facility is in need of some upgrades...

[HCE SuiGeneris]

33. K & R

[Seeking Serenity]

40. Don't wash your clothes in that.

The excess iron and manganese that's discoloring the water will stain your clothes, and it won't ever come out.

Every six months to a year, when Central Arkansas Water flushes out its lines, customers are told not to wash clothes in the week that their part of the service area is being flushed. Iron and manganese are naturally occurring minerals here. It's gonna collect in water lines, period. Some water systems are just better able to deal with it than others. I feel for the residents of Tuckerman. But the water is safe for human consumption.

And, NO, it has NOTHING to do with a pipeline spill 75 miles away and downhill from Tuckerman.

[cherokeeprogressive]

41. We had a well in OKC; every now and then the walls would shed some dirt.

Running the faucets non-stop for days or not all until it settled was the only way to get it clear again.

[Wednesdays]

47. Yummy

I always loved Guinness Stout.

Oh, wait, you're telling me it's not that?