State of emergency declared in Lucas County after toxins found in Toledo water
Source: Toledo Blade
"A state of emergency was declared today in Lucas County and the greater Toledo area after tests at the Collins Park water-treatment plant in East Toledo produced two toxin sample readings.
Chemists testing water at Collins Park plant found two sample readings for microcystin -- a toxin that is released by algae blooms -- that exceeded the recommended “do not drink” standard of one microgram per liter standard. About 400,000 people in and around Ohio‘s fourth-largest city are affected.
Within hours after the warning was issued, Ohio Gov. John Kasich declared a state of emergency for Toledo and the surrounding areas affected, including Fulton County. Early today, residents descended on stores, quickly clearing shelves of bottled water.
Toledo Mayor D. Michael Collins and health leaders asked residents to remain calm and said they may have answers later today on when Toledo-area water supply will be safe to drink again. Water samples were sent to Michigan and Cincinnati for testing; a third sample is headed to Columbus at about 3:30 today. Mayor D. Michael Collins said each test is different and will allow a “triangulation” of tests. The mayor declined to say when test results might be available. He did not want to “put a burden of time” on results."
Read more: http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2014/08/02/City-of-Toledo-issues-do-no-drink-water-advisery.html
Don't know about you however, this is a bit concerning indeed. Let's see. Detroit - Water Shut Off Crisis, California -- Water Drought and limiting of Water Resources for reservation purposes, Toledo, Ohio -- No One Can Drink the Water, Period.
Ran into a lady from Toledo, Ohio this morning on the way to a weekly political forum at Speedway.
The nice lady, "I hope he (the cashier) won't think I'm crazy having to buy 10 cases of bottled water.
Reply, "What's wrong? Are you living in Detroit?"
Nice Lady, "No, I'm from Toledo. They just declared a water emergency and we can't drink or boil our water."
Reply, "What the hell?".
Nice Lady, "In fact, they are saying the water is contaminated from Lake Erie."
Reply, but thought in head first (Oh, Shit --- Lake Erie -- Hello our water in S.E. Michigan could be at risk for contamination too), "Wow....just wow. We have not heard a peep about this on local news. Will tell others. Thanks and hope you'll will be okay."
Ummm...is anyone else concerned? Just wondering.
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and yes, this was posted earlier but the "state of emergency" mention is new.
Good luck to all of you there. I was considering 
but these are really different issues that you mention. The various weather websites have been discussing the terrible algae bloom in Lake Erie and there are all sorts of cities in various states that might be impacted depending on how their water treatment systems handle it.
Date of photo is Oct. 5, 2011
that I posted in a different thread.... Here it is below (from NOAA) -
http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2014/08/03/Rest-of-region-on-high-alert-for-contamination.html
Little to no fresh water is left in the U.S.of A. to drink. Thanks for the information and extreme 
From the link above:
"A nearly three-month-long investigation by state and federal regulators eventually tied the kill to an invasive algae species known as golden algae (Prymnesium parvum). Yet golden algae offered only a partial explanation for the disaster. It may have been the immediate reason for the kill, but it wasn’t the underlying cause. The algae itself cannot survive in freshwater; it thrives only in marine-like environments. Somehow, a freshwater, inland ecosystem had become salty enough for the algae to grow and multiply.
How did this Appalachian stream become as salty as the oceans? There is no single answer, no smoking gun. The contaminated water might have come from acid mine drainage discharges – outflow of wastewater from nearby coalmines, which has been occurring for decades. It might also be tied to natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale, a relatively new industry in the region. Or perhaps it was a toxic cocktail of both.
The complexity of the disaster has allowed the company most likely responsible for destroying the stream, Consol Energy, to deny wrongdoing."
Adequate drinking water supplies will be brought in via the Red Cross and National Guard. No doubt they will upgrade their water treatment facilities to remove the microcystin. People will help out, I did this morning by helping a coworker from the affected area get adequate drinking water. At times like this, the generosity of people amazes me.
While folks are still cut off from using the water? Really? #SMH.....
Update from the Toledo Blade as of TWO HOURS ago....
"Toledo’s public water will remain under a do-not-drink advisory until at least 6 a.m. Sunday pending the return of results from test samples sent out to three different laboratories, Mayor D. Michael Collins said during an evening news conference.
Results from tests sent to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Cincinnati and to a state laboratory in Columbus were expected in later today, but test results from Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., won’t be in until Sunday morning, the mayor said.
City officials also have sent a second sample to U.S. EPA at that agency’s request, Mr. Collins said.
From those three samples, Mr. Collins said, city officials hope to “triangulate” the condition of Toledo’s treated water, which city tests conducted Friday night and early Saturday indicated is contaminated with microcystin toxin, a product of burgeoning algae blooms on Lake Erie. The result was a water crisis that has affected 500,000 water users in and around Toledo and caused Ohio Gov. John Kasich to declare a state of emergency.
The data from the two city tests, the mayor said, “is very confusing for everyone” -- a key reason why Toledo has sought outside analysis.
“We really don’t have a true answer. One set of tests is different from the other,” he said. “...We don’t know for sure these [city] tests are proof positive, but certainly we’re not taking any risks.”
Mr. Collins was confident, however, that the algae crisis will bring about permanent change in how Lake Erie and other natural resources are managed. He faulted agricultural fertilizer runoff, sewage overflows “up in Michigan,” and other pollution for Toledo’s problem.
“I don’t believe we’ll ever be back to normal,” the mayor said. “But this is not going to be our new normal. We’re going to fix this. Our city is not going to be abandoned.”
Read more at http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2014/08/02/City-of-Toledo-issues-do-no-drink-water-advisery.html#cGXDJdYWT0lxxH3s.99
Yet, for some folks, its' Hysteria.....
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Really...how much more do even the most confirmed Faux-bots need to experience or hear about--damaged ecosystems, polluted water, unusable resources--before they realize that deregulation does not = better quality of life?
Well, the Reptilicans have had quite a run out of their ALEC-fueled agenda...but how much longer can they get away with it? We can only hope not too much more pushing the nation off the cliff before policy starts turning around. That things even got to this point attests to the power of propaganda and the pernicious effects of destroying civics education and keeping the populace ignorant and frightened.
At present, unfortunately, we are still in a self-reinforcing cycle of more $$ in politics-->more corruption and selling out of America-->more $$ in politics.
Thank you!