Chromium in Norman water

gingerfeathers · December 2010

Ummm... this is scary... Indifferent This is the stuff Erin Brockovich was made famous for.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20101220/ts_yblog_thelookout/study-tap-water-in-31-cities-contains-cancer-causing-chemical

OSUWifey09 · December 2010

My co-worker [who isn't from Oklahoma and has only lived here four months] saw this and JUST told us about this. Super scary. I wonder if it's prevalent in other parts of the state...

critti710 · December 2010

Dup.

critti710 · December 2010

I have been talking about this with a FB friend on his status. The water that is used in Norman comes from the Garber-Wellington Aquifer, which also provides water for essentially all of central Oklahoma except for Oklahoma City itself. It is kind of freaky, but the levels found in Norman, though the highest of the cities tested in this study, are still low compared to the levels from the town that made Erin Brockovich famous (the levels in that town were about 50 times higher than those found in Norman). That being said, if we weren't going to be moving into OKC city limits soon, this freaks me out enough that I would probably invest in a reverse osmosis filter.