HUH??? - WH plan tests entire counties for cocaine

[kpete]

Fairfax Co. Takes Part in Unusual Wastewater Experiment
Mar 27th - 9:20am

FAIRFAX, Va. - Fairfax County is taking part in an unusual White House drug study.

Wastewater from communities throughout the Potomac River Basin is being tested for the urinary byproducts of cocaine.

"Apparently, they're able to ascertain how many people may be using illicit drugs, in this case cocaine, with such studies," Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerry Connolly tells WTOP.

Earlier this month, county workers collected five days worth of water samples at the pollution control plant in Lorton. The samples were sent to a lab in Rockville, Md., to be analyzed for the traces of the main urinary byproduct of cocaine.

"It does not indicate that we have an unusual drug problem in Fairfax County," Connolly says. "I'll be interested, obviously, in the results. It's kind of an unusual study and an unusual request. Obviously, we're prepared to cooperate with any endeavor to try to make sure the use of illicit drugs is discouraged in our community."

White House officials believe the wastewater testing will lead to a more accurate index of how many people use drugs than traditional survey research.

http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=25&sid=737418
via:http://www.rawstory.com/

[htuttle]

1. They won't test the water for mercury or arsenic, but they test for coke?

:crazy:

[pitohui]

5. they do test for mercury or arsenic

where do you live that you don't get a copy of your water test results ea. year telling you levels of arsenic etc?

[htuttle]

9. Why, thank you Officer Pedantic!

My throwaway one-line post was a silly allusion to Bush's efforts to dismantle EPA water standards, but yes, you are technically correct. I probably could dig up a set of my local municipality's water test results -- not thanks to Bush's ongoing funding cuts at the EPA, but rather in spite of them.

I wouldn't want to mislead anyone about our Great Leader, honest.

[11 Bravo]

16. They test for those toxins, but they grade on the curve.

[woodsprite]

7. That's cause shrub thinks that if you can extract it from the water

he could have a "marketable" product there.

Sheesh! All they need to do is test the "waters" coming out of the WH.

[otohara]

2. Amazing Isn't It?

of all the things they could spend money on.

[slackmaster]

11. Drop in a bucket IMO

The information gained could be very interesting.

[pitohui]

3. they did this in london (england)

conclusion -- the fine people of london are apparently bombed to the gills on cocaine at all times altho they seemed pretty relaxed to me on my last few visits

i wonder how accurate these tests are, they seem to show an awful lot of drug byproduct in our water supplies

[slackmaster]

12. Also done in Italy

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/bc-cri080305.php

[LynnTheDem]

4. Every day I am beginning to feel I got out of the USA

just in time.

*Note to self; start setting up DU-members-only safehouse.

:D

[Nickster]

6. Silly people. Dumbya is simply scouting for his new home location after he

vacates the WH. LoL.

[movonne]

8. The first place they ought to check is the WH

[dogday]

10. They need to test their own asses before anyone else nt

[Stand4something]

13. Figures doesn't it?

:dunce: That will really tell 'em what they want to know won't it?? Excuse me...but even I think I know that people of all walks of life do drugs and that coke is the drug of choice...see...they could have give ME the money instead...oh wait...that would be blood money.

[MountainLaurel]

14. Link to a related thread

And the article from the WashPost:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=218&topic_id=1562&mesg_id=1562

[DELUSIONAL]

15. Leave no county behind -- find cocaine in sewage

and remove Federal funding.

Collective punishment.

Dumb ass idiots -- can they find more ways to waste money?

[jwirr]

17. George must be out of the stuff!