Corexit Found In Swimming Pool Of Sickened Florida Family
This is the letter a Florida couple received after sending their swimming pool water to be testedThis is disturbing news, via Florida Oil Spill Law. If toxic levels of Corexit are making people sick in Florida, that's not good:
“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. “We have a 15 year old and felt we owed it to him to live in a clean, healthy environment,” said Mrs. Schebler.
The Scheblers found Robert Naman, a Mobile, Alabama chemist who’s performed multiple tests (1, 2, 3) for WKRG Channel 5, also out of Mobile.“Warren collected a water sample from the pool filter on August 17th… packed the sample according to Mr. Naman’s instructions, and overnighted it to his Mobile, Ala. lab that same day,” she noted.
The results were delivered by Naman over the phone on August 27 at 11:00 a.m. EDT. A copy of the findings were then e-mailed to the Scheblers. To view the document, click here.“Naman [said] our pool water sample we sent him contained 50.3 ppm [parts per million] 2-butoxyethanol marker for Corexit,” according to Mrs. Schebler. Tests for arsenic came back at less than .02 ppm.
A July letter from four top scientists noted, “Corexit 9527A contains 2-BTE (2-butoxyethanol), a toxic solvent that ruptures red blood cells, causing hemolysis (bleeding) and liver and kidney damage (Johanson and Bowman, 1991, Nalco, 2010).”The safety data sheet provided by Nalco, the manufacturer of Corexit 9527A, warns, “Harmful if absorbed through skin. May be harmful if swallowed. May cause liver and kidney effects and/or damage. There may be irritation to the gastro-intestinal tract.
”Mr. Schebler’s “severe diarrhea and very dark urine” appear to indicate gastro-intestinal tract irritation.BP Press Officer Daren Beaudo released a statement on August 28 that reads, “Unified Command records indicate that the last date of use of the Corexit 9527 was May 22,” almost three months before the samples were taken from the pool.
Yet, the Schebler’s report is the second time in the last 10 days that the 2-butoxyethanol marker for Corexit 9527A has been discovered near the Gulf. It has also been found near the Florida border in Cotton Bayou, AL, at about 1/4 the level as in Homosassa, FL. A WKRG segment from August 19 featured an inland water sample that tested for 13.3 ppm of the Corexit dispersant.The question remains, how did this chemical find its way into the Schebler’s pool in such a high concentration?
“At night we would hear very low aircraft, including helicopters. We figured they were just heading to help out in the Gulf,” and Mrs. Schebler added that she was told, “The prevailing winds from the Gulf are easterly — and when they spray, it is airborne — and that we are right in the path of those winds.” It was also noted that, “We had a lot of rain here before my husband got sick, and wondered what was going on… We had been having daily downpours in July.”
"Hey, everything we did was approved by the federal government. Not our problem."
These quotes will be followed by multiple commercials describing how BP has taken "full responsibility."
Corruption favors the wealthy.
The EPA objected to the use of dispersants, but the White House quickly muzzled them.
So even more sadly, BP has an out on this, simply because the WH muzzled EPA. Indeed, since the WH approved of this behavior, chances are any medical bills incurred by these folks (how many swimming pools within range of these airborne plumes?) will almost certainly be denied by Kenneth "Beyond Poisoning" Feinberg, since the Obama Administration acquiesced to BP's actions.
So you're right about BP's claim and chances are it will be seen as valid. Wow, whodathunk this administration would have saved BP so very much money?!
Thanks Obama! Thanks a lot!
Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit atrocities.
Do you actually think BP cares?? Do you think BP or the EPA, or the Coast Guard, or anyone else gives a crap?? Nope...They've proved that over and over and over and over again.. "Fiver" hit it right on the head.. BP will cop a government plea and start drilling again - in the same place - again - and another spill WILL happen...
What's a few people's lives if they continue to grow profits..... obviously not much...
We create more laws and give the government more regulatory authority. It really works. The free market is evil. In fact, I say we give the government a monopoly on all energy and uses of energy. The government will use this responsibility and power wisely.The government isn't just people, it's made up of "experts"! The government is really effective. The free market is evil. Strange how it's the government that protected BP from market forces.....wait a minute, but, what would have happened if market forces had regulated BP instead of the government? This oil spill might not have even happened....No I can't believe that. The government loves us all very, very, very much. As much as God, even. People making their own choices with their own money is just insanity.
The purpose of Crooks and Liars is to keep small-minded individuals thinking in terms of the left vs. right garbage they've been trained to respond to.
you stick to the topic of the post.
The market is reactionary, not preventative, at best. The market drives companies to drill more safely and use fewer dispersants only after economies have been devistated and people have been injured or killed. The market shuts down egg farms only after 1000s of people have ecoli. And that only happens if information flows freely and people have other, non-monopoly options. One of the things government is supposed to do is be preventative and impose rules of the road. Very few people advocate your polar opposite, RF. Most people want a free market, but one with some regulation that prevents the worst abuses and excesses, so people and society can benefit maximally.
Or perhaps we should take your extremist, "all regulation is bad, let free markets rein!" mentality to its logical conclusion and allow people to murder eachother when buisness deals go sideways. Provides a pretty strong disincentive to fraud, doesn't it. Get rid of those pesky police and criminal courts that take tax money as well. Let's just get rid of the government entirely and let anarchy rein. That's the truely 100% free market;the only restriction on individual or collective action is what you can get away with without being lynched.
unregulated by government? They'd police themselves and the spill wouldn't have happened - you need to share whatever your on. Make it easy on the rest of us. For your example, just look at oil companies in Nigeria.
you're an ass.
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
Why did i bother spending good money on a vasectomy? Had I drunk tap water and breathed the air I could have gotten myself neutered for free.
and it is just the beginning. Five years after Katrina, residents of the Gulf coast are still being screwed by their government. So much for Obama and his ass-kicking of those responsible for the disaster.
Sickening and infuriating.
many want to blame government for not stepping in regarding this corexit. the corporations are able to protect their chemical products from the competition and therefore from the government regulators. this
obviously has to change.
Integrate EPA/etc with the patent office. Make a condition of patent approval (which, incidentally, is a control on the free market, RF I'm looking at you) that new chemical formulations have to be run through regulatory approval first. That way if you want proprietary protection of your new magic goop from the government, we have to know it is safe first.
and household products this chemical might be found in? Didn't think so. Any particular reason your rocket scientist pulled his sample from the pool filter? It's a water soluble solvent. If it was there the concentration would be expected to be uniform. Any other bodies of water showing similar concentrations? That'd be nice to know. Ponds, pools anything? Any of the other components of Corexit present there or in other nearby water bodies? Any chemicals not found in Corexit present in the water samples? Anybody have any idea why anyone would spray Corexit at night when you can't find any target to spray it on? So they didn't. Anybody planning on suing for this grievous injury? I'll bet the last one is yes. Any gullible journalists around? Probably.
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the MSDS sheet for this chemical is here: http://www.jtbaker.com/msds/englishhtml/b6100... The PEL limit for daily exposure ( over the standard eight hours) is 50ppm.
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That's the new and approved talking point. It's not the oil corpration's fault it's President Obama's. See how simple it truly or falsely is. It's has to be President Obama's fault can't possibly be anyone else much less a multi-national corporate criminal enterprise. NO! That's too easy let's blame President Obama for this mess, after all he is a Democrat and everyone knows Democrats are evil. Just watch the bobble heads on television or read the corporate owned newspapers they always tell the truth donch know, wink. It's really so simple if you refuse to understand how the republicans have screwed the American Middle Class so badly it President Obama's fault! Bankers get off without worrying about stealing pensions, GWB took care of them but everything else is President Obama"s fault. Deficts, Obama's fault, unemployment, President Obama's fault, illegal immigration that soared under GWB, President Obama's fault. See how easy it is just watch tv or read a newspaper and you get all the "facts".
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Sorry, but I call bullshit on this story. 2-butoxyethanol is NOT a marker for Corexit. From wikipedia:
The notion that it somehow got in their pool, and only in their pool, from helicopters flying overhead (and spilling their load?) is absurd. If it was raining, that would have knocked down wind-blown droplets, not spread them.
This is getting into HuffPo-style BS. There are plenty of real problems to point to (like the dispersants showing up in the bayous, which is almost certainly due to using them on the oil spill) without credulous people reporting silly stuff like this.
Good catch, I was wondering why these people filled their swimming pool with sea water.. There's no way corexit would have found it's way into the drinking water supply this fast. Susie likes to jump the gun with hysterical reports. She had one a month ago about our Navy massing ships off the coast of Iran.
I mean, I've drained a few pools before (both in construction when I was younger and today as a skateboarder), and emptying a pool with a regular pump into some area of the yard just saturates everything.
Does Correxit have a noted halflife or time span before it break down into something less dangerous? If they're getting it in Florida, I can't help but imagine the amount here in Louisiana.
w00t!
Time to sue BP and the US Government for letting them use this "dispersant". It truly is the Sewer of Mexico, even moreso than we were duped into believing. I wonder how much of the marine life has insurance so the inhabitants can get an unnecessary prescription for some pharmaceutical cream for their rashes. Sue the doctor too? I'd start by suing the EPA, not for personal gain, but for failing what they've failed so many other times to do: protect the environment!
This entire article is nothing but a sham PR stunt. There is no way that dispersants sprayed into the ocean 50 miles from shore could possibly end up in someone's swimming pool. Simply not possible. IF this pool contains any dangerous chemicals, they might want to start looking in their own back yard. Swimming pools are a veritable cocktail of chemicals used to keep the water clear, kill bacteria and algae, etc.
won't let anyone know what's in Corexit to begin with. All aided along by Cheney - this stuff is probably toxic as hell and that's why they don't want anyone testing it.
we know that's what we found in the pool. They identified it because Cheney's DNA was in the water and his fingerprints were found in the homeowners urine.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
I am sure this would not have happened on Hillary's watch, but I notice we have not been keeping track of
Balloon Boy lately. He probably dropped the stuff in the pool since it is hundreds of miles from where any
slicks requiring aerial spraying were located. (It is an hour north of Tampa, Fla.)
In addition to Midnight Rambler pointing out the headline is a flat out lie (Corexit found), the post says that these people first became sick with rashes in May, then didn't notice it again until jumping into the pool in late July after mowing the lawn, then noticed it again a week later after mowing once more. Guess they don't swim often.
Florida Oil Spill Law is the exclusive source of this report. They are very credible. Check their site for the name of anyone associated with it. Give you a buck if you find one.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
Hell, if I can get the guy's address, I'll make the 45-min drive from Clearwater to go drink some of his pool water. So anyone wanting to cash is (or not) on my possible pending death, step up and place your bets...
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