Tests Find Sickened Family Has 50.3 PPM of Corexit’s 2-Butoxyethanol in Swimming Pool
August 30th, 2010? ? ? ? ?
Via: Florida Oil Spill Law:
“Our heads are still swimming,” stated Barbara Schebler of Homosassa, Florida, who received word last Friday that test results on the water from her family’s swimming pool showed 50.3 ppm of 2-butoxyethanol, a marker for the dispersant Corexit 9527A used to break up and sink BP’s oil in the Gulf of Mexico.
The problems began for the Scheblers a few weeks after the April 20 blow-out. “Our first clue were rashes we both got early in May. Both my husband and I couldn’t get rid of the rashes and had to get cream from our doctor,” Schebler noted, “I never had a rash in my life.”
Then, on “July [23], my husband Warren mowed the lawn. It was hot so he got in the pool to cool off afterward. That afternoon he had severe diarrhea and very dark urine. This lasted about 2 days,” she revealed.
Initially, they reasoned this was caused by the heat. The following week Mr. Schebler again mowed the lawn and went in the pool, and again he was sickened with the same severe symptoms.
Suspicious that the pool may be a problem, the family set out to get the water tested…
Holy crap. I’ve visited Homosassa Springs before on prior visits to Tampa. How the fluck does this life killer end up in the pool?
I had to take a pause to hold head in hands. Where is this going?
Sorry, but Kevin methinks you ought to add the BP Oil Spill to your kill off category.
My sister sent me something about Bragg Amino’s today. I guess they are about as organic as Corexit. Using hydrochloric acid to ferment? Nice. I’ve got about 8 quart bottles down in my food storage. I’ve suggested using it to clean out the old pool.
Used that discussion to send her the link re this article. My sister is a hydrogeologist with 30 years experience after all!
Sister replied: must have been something else they were using in the pool.
Can’t believe she said that. But after all, she is living Tampa and its been raining there a lot so she says, and oh my, de-Nile is not just a river in Egypt.
Don’t know how I would be handling this info if my life and my home investments and livelihood were rooted in Tampa. I don’t know what I’d do in that situation.
But if I didn’t have a dime of commitment invested there I’d be out of there in a heartbeat.
Usual health warnings apply, so to speak:
http://www.floridaoilspilllaw.com/breaking-three-different-doctors-find-pahs-heavy-metals-arsenic-in-blood-gulf-coast-residents-some-are-really-inland-audio