Showing posts with label Gloucester VA. Show all posts
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Monday, September 18, 2017

County Administrator Responds; Is Gloucester County’s Public Drinking Water Making You Sick?

Gloucester, VA - Picture taken for the new Gloucester Links & News website.  Gloucestercounty-va.comThe following is from Gloucester County’s Administrator. It sounds great, but what about keeping the public informed?

Mr. Hogge –  
Treatment Process Improvements at the Surface Water Plant have been designed, procured and awarded to address this issue.  We will be converting from chlorination, using liquid chlorine, to chloramination using liquid chlorine and liquid ammonia. The project is currently under construction and we anticipate completion, and process conversion, by the end of 2017. 
Brent 
J. Brent Fedors
County Administrator
Gloucester County, Virginia
6467 Main Street
Gloucester, VA  23061
(804) 693-4042
Here is a link to EPA info on the pros and cons of chloramination:  http://www.mawc.org/sites/default/files/page_attachments/pdf/Chloramine_General_Facts.pdf

Saturday, September 16, 2017

Is Gloucester County’s Public Drinking Water Making You Sick?

Gloucester, VA - Picture taken for the new Gloucester Links & News website.  Gloucestercounty-va.com Gloucester County, Virginia public water customers, located in two different areas of the County’s public drinking water distribution system, received notice with their September first water bill that excessive levels of disinfection byproducts (DBP’s) had been detected. What are DBP’s you ask; DBPs form when disinfectants such as chlorine, chloramines, chlorine dioxide or ozone react with organic and inorganic substances present in raw water. Sound complicated? Well it is, so we will keep this as down to earth and simple as we can. 

The DBP identified in the notice, Trihalomethanes (THM), are not good. In fact, if consumed over extended periods of time or in large enough quantities, THM’s can cause numerous health issues. According to the not very informative notice Utilities sent to affected customers; some people who consume THM’s for an extended period of time can develop liver, kidney and central nervous system problems and may have an increased risk of getting cancer. A clinical and epidemiological review published by the National Institutes of Health says THM’s from chlorinated water have been associated with spontaneous abortion, low birth weight and birth defects. Some studies suggest exposure to chlorine vapors, including THMs, especially while showering, bathing or working in Gloucester’s surface water treatment plant may lead to asthma, other respiratory disorders and may harm the lining of the respiratory tract.
For the most part, THM’s are not noticeable to the average person and without mandatory testing we would likely hear even less about them. There are ways you can protect yourself from THM’s. The best and most effective method of eliminating THM’s and many other harmful elements found in public water systems is a whole home filtration system. These systems filter all the water that enters the building to include showers and outside faucets. A less aggressive method of getting rid of THM’s are individual facet/sink filters. These are great to get rid of the junk in the water you drink and cook with, but do nothing to get rid of the stuff in the shower. Boiling water for 5 minutes or longer will also eliminate THM’s from your water, but be sure not to breath the steam.  
The DBP notice from Utilities asks each customer to share the information provided with all other people who drink the affected water. I wonder if the York River Oyster Company restaurant is notifying their customers and if Gloucester Point Baptist Church is notifying its members, as they are both connected to the Terrapin Cove Road waterline that tested high in THM’s. The other location where high levels of THM’s were detected is on Clopton Drive in Gloucester County.
We cannot speak for the customers on or near Clopton Drive, but we know with absolute certainty that this is not the only time the waterline along Terrapin Cove Road has been found to contain high levels of THM’s. We also know with certainty that water containing excessive levels of THM’s was most likely consumed for years at T.C. Walker and Achilles schoolhouses and possibly at Gloucester High School. Wonder if that has anything to do with the increased number of school employees being diagnosed with cancer over the last few years. It is time to stop kicking the dirty water can down the road, but it does not look like the elected and hired people in our local government plan do anything to repair our neglected infrastructure anytime soon. Remember that when you vote this November.
Here is Gloucester County’s High DBP level notice:


Thursday, August 2, 2012

Gloucester, VA History And Politics of Our Nation




Patrick Henry's Famous speech on Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death.  Not a part of Gloucester History, but a major part of British American Colonial history.  We decided that this being election season, now is a great time to remind people of our founding history.  The picture in this PDF file is a scene from the Battle of the Hook.  You are welcome to download a free copy of this PDF file from Slideshare.  Just click on the Slideshare link and when you get to the page it is hosted on, at the top of the container, there is an option to download.


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Sunday, July 15, 2012

GVLN - Middle Peninsula Farmers Facing Crop Losses



The heat wave that has blistered corn in the Midwest may help some local farmers, but others worry their crops will fall to the same fate.
Two weeks ago, corn was selling for about $5.50 a bushel. Earlier this week, after the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that 30 percent of the corn in the nation's 18 top producing states was in poor condition, prices on the Chicago Board of Trade soared to $7.74 per bushel.
For farmers in Isle of Wight and Surry counties, whose crops have not been effected by either the high heat or a lack of rain in recent weeks, that's good news. But Gloucester County farmer Charles Rich doubts he will reap rewards from the higher price.
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Gloucester, VA Trucker Seriously Injured In Early I-83 Morning Crash With Hanover Trucker


A truck driver from Gloucester, Va., was seriously injured early this morning when his truck slammed into the rear of another tractor-trailer on Interstate 83 near a construction zone, state police reported.
Stanley D. Taylor, 36, was flown to York Hospital after the 1 a.m. crash near mile marker 23 in the southbound lanes of the interstate in Manchester Township, police said. Police described his injuries as "major." A York Hospital spokesperson said this morning that Taylor was not listed as a patient there.
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Gloucester, VA Real Estate Issues To Watch Out For




Some information that may not be considered when either buying or selling real estate whether in Gloucester, VA of in any other area of the nation for that matter.  When you look at laws like this you realize that the US Constitution has been scrapped and that our present leaders could care less about it.  The words of our founding fathers have been deleted from relevant history in modern times.  Is this the type of government we really want for both the present and the future?  You really need to be watching everything from anyone who would claim leadership roles or are they really trolls?


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Gloucester, VA Links and News - The Rights of The Citizenry


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As part of our ongoing series of historical sayings quotes and political history, we present to you, "The Rights of The Citizenry."  With contributions by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Henry D Thoreau.  We have a huge surprise coming very soon.  We'll let you in early on what we have under construction.  We are working on a custom version of Beacon's Rebellion.  Beacon's Rebellion is a very big part of Gloucester History and the information on line is simply horrible.  We are going to have a free download of our own custom version with local area pictures.

  So far the e-book is 70 pages total.  We will offer a free license with this e-book as well.  So it can be used on any site or printed and used as a promo for local area businesses and or government projects.  Look for it as a side bar item towards the end of the week.  Which reminds us, to our reader feed friends, thank you for putting us in your reader feeds, may we recommend you visit the site again as we have added a huge amount of features that you do not want to miss.  More free e-books, more music downloads, extra pages with all kinds of databases and directories, site and news submission areas and a link to one of our sites with a great mix of free software.  We continue to add features that we think you might find helpful.  SO the next time you have a minute, come back and explore the site.


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Monday, July 9, 2012

Political History, James Madison on Constitutional Law



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Political History, James Madison on Constitutional Law;

What It Means For Today;



Today's modern views and interpretations of the law of the land are as follows;

“Paragraph A; Gives Congress the power to tax and spend for the General welfare.

Under this broad power, Congress can help states improve the health and education of the citizens.
Congress can appropriate money to build roads, dams and do many other things that are good for the nation.

Here is the actual law;

Article I. Section 8.
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and
excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of
the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the
United States;

Present Interpretations;

Under this broad power, Congress can help states improve the health and education of the citizens.
Congress can appropriate money to build roads, dams and do many other things that are good for the nation.

Sounds logical does it not?

Here is what James Madison said; Based on his Veto of the “Bonus Bill”.

“The power to regulate commerce among the several States can not include a power to construct roads and canals, and to improve the navigation of water courses in order to facilitate, promote, and secure such a commerce without a latitude of construction departing from the ordinary import of the terms;

To refer the power in question to the clause,”to provide for the common defense and general welfare”
would be contrary to the established and consistent rules of interpretation, as rendering the special and careful enumeration of powers which follow the clause nugatory and improper. Such a view of the Constitution would have the effect of giving to Congress a general power of legislation instead of the defined and limited one hitherto understood to belong to them.”

To appreciate these United States, it is important to know it's past, then view it's present state, and ask questions.


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Sunday, July 8, 2012

GVLN - Rush Limbaugh Comes To Gloucester, VA


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Okay, Rush is not physically here In Gloucester, but we have this video to share with you from a CPAC meeting.  We have Adam Carolla on the side panel and we have Bloomberg TV just underneath that.

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Saturday, July 7, 2012

GVLN - Gloucester Credit Card Warning, Why Isn't The Sheriffs Office On This?


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Here is a very serious credit card warning to all the residents here in Gloucester that either use credit cards or debit cards with credit card logos on them.  This has been a national issue for some time and now it has become a serious local issue.  Using your credit or debit cards may get you more than you bargained for.  Reports we have coming in from the local area, residents are complaining of being double charged for items they purchased at local retailers.  When we went to examine their credit or debit card statements, the lack of time stamps for the dual charges were missing in every case.

  All that we saw on any of the statements is the date stamps for the double charges.  That alone in our opinion is a serious flaw in how banks do business.  Scrupulous employees at local stores are charging cards a second time for the same item and who knows what they are doing after that.  Either way, you need to keep a close eye on your bank statements or better yet, go back to cash and not have to worry about the hassles of dealing with the issues of possibly being double charged ever again.

  Now where is the Gloucester Sheriffs Office on these issues?  What are they doing to either investigate or stop these crimes?  Sure, each double charge individually are small so they may seem insignificant, however, at the end of the day, these criminals could be getting away with hundreds of dollars.



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GVLN - Roll-Your-Own Cigarette Stores Going Up In Smoke


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For smokers who bargained on roll-your-own cigarette stores for cheap smokes, it looks like those days are numbered.  On Friday, President Barack Obama is expected to sign into law a federal highway bill with a section that redefines tobacco manufacturers to include any business with a roll-your-own cigarette machine and taxes those products at the same rate as packaged smokes.
The move comes a month after Illinois increased taxes on such roll-your-own machine-made cigarettes.
Marcia Smith, 47, of Lake County, decided after the state tax increase that she should move her Smokes & Such tobacco shops in Skokie and Gurnee to Wisconsin, where taxes on rolled cigarettes are lower.
If Obama signs the law, she said she’ll shut her doors.
The machines, which cost about $33,000 each, allow customers to pick their own tobacco and pour it into a device that can roll the tobacco into a carton, or about 200 cigarettes, within minutes.
Since 2009, RYO stores have been selling cigarettes with far lower taxes than packaged cigarettes.
Why? In 2009, Congress more than doubled the federal excise tax on cigarettes, and, to bring RYO tobacco in line with packaged smokes, raised the tax on RYO tobacco from $1.10 a pound to $24.78 a pound. Yet it raised the tax on pipe tobacco by a far smaller amount — from $1.10 to $2.83 a pound.

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Just goes to show that it's the government that is in the tobacco business and not private industry.  Yet another alternative is the electronic cigarettes.  I have tried them and they really are pretty good alternatives.  But they are restricted in many areas just like cigarettes despite what any of the ads might say.

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Friday, July 6, 2012

Synthetic Drug Legislation In Virginia - What Is Legal And What Isn't


From Bath-Salts-Direct.com

Virginia legislation


GENERAL RULES:
The controlled substances in question are typically banned or scheduled on a case-by-case basis as the governments catch up with what the latest substance being used is. However, there can be complications with analog drug acts that are in force on the federal level and several states. The Federal Analog Act is a law that has serious concerns with its vague language along with the serious weakness of being limited to banning substances intended for "internal use".
Typically, there is no law for a specific license to sell bath salts, plant feeders, incense, or potpourri among the states. These goods are too prolific for effective enforcement of licenses. The common practice is to ban the substances in the goods. These can be identified by chemical tests and is a lot less burdensome than asking every general goods store to have a license for a handful of products.
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Bill No: H.B. 1434ER, Action: 2011-03-23 - Governor: Approved by Governor-Chapter 384 (effective 3/23/11), Link
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Store Selling Amped Replacement - Law Enforcement Officials Investigating It




The store where this video was taken is at the 7-11 location by Peace Frogs on Route 14 off of route 17 bypass.  The reporter was unfair in this video.  She knew the guy was not a doctor or any other type of professional, neither was she.  So who is she to even ask?  She is a reporter but not an attorney.  Why is she asking him legal questions?  Not so nice when the shoe is on the other foot is it.


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  We do not agree with the sales of synthetic drugs.  No one knows the long term effects of these new chemicals and the short term effects are already showing a lot of disastrous effects.  What no one seems to realize is that each time a chemical is identified and then outlawed, these labs are already 20 steps ahead of the game and have numerous new products to launch to take the place of the old ones just outlawed.  It's a fools game.  All the stores get lists of what is about to be outlawed and when so that they can pull the stuff off the shelves and re stock with the new legal chemicals.

  The money involved here is to high for the stores to even consider closing.   Talk about a waste of time for law enforcement.  Legalize the real stuff, regulate it and tax it.  Keep job restrictions and driving restrictions in place and then there will be much less problems.



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GLOUCESTER, Va. (WAVY) - Just days after a new law went into effect banning certain synthetic substances such as spice, bath salts and Amped , 10 On Your Side wanted to know if stores had removed the substances from their shelves.

In May, 10 On Your Side told you about Amped exuberance powder. A former user said snorting Amped made her lose her mind.

"To want to actually physically kill someone I've never been that way towards my mom we've always been best friends and she didn't know who I was and I didn't know who I was," said  user who did not want to be identified.

Gloucester officials say they are investigating a new product called Blast Off which is replacing Amped. At least one person selling it says it's a party powder that will give you energy.

One store employee willing to tell us all about Blast Off claimed it's organic. He said he couldn't show us any because it was sold out.

"Blast Off would actually be a blessing to some of these people because it's sort of weaning them off that bath salt Amped thing," a Gloucester store employee selling it said.

The employee called Blast Off a 'party powder.'

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Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Victory At Yorktown, 4th of July Celebration


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Victory at Yorktown.  What the 4th of July celebration is all about.  Once again happy 4th of July from GVLN.

United States Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corp, 4th of July Celebration


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We are adding this into our 4th of July celebration video mix.  Enjoy.  The US Army Old Guard Fife and Drum corp is one of the oldest and most elite fife and drum corp in the nation.  You can see why they are considered elite in this video.

American Patriot Part 3 - 4th of July Celebration, Williamsburg, Virginia


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Our 3rd and final part of an American Patriot.  Shot in Colonial Williamsburg.  Part of out 4th of July Celebration.


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American Patriot Part 2 - 4th of July Celebration - Williamsburg, Virginia


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Part 2 of the American Patriot.  Our 4th of July Celebration.  Shot in Colonial Williamsburg.


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American Patriot - 4th of July Celebration - Williamsburg, Virginia


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American Patriot part one.  What the 4th of July is all about.



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Yorktown Fireworks - 4th of July Show



This is the second part of the video from 2010 and is the entire fireworks show from that time.  We may shoot the show in Gloucester again next year to update our files and news.  Once again, happy 4th of July everyone.