Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Don't Drink the Water?

No, not some third world country with inadequate sanitation needs. Right here in Chicago!
  • The City of Chicago is fine tuning a program designed to keep old prescription drugs from ending up in the area’s water supply.

    Officials say they’re harmless, but traces of pharmaceuticals have been found in Chicago’s drinking water. Alderman wants to see city residents to have a better way of disposing of their prescription drugs than flushing them down the toilet. So, the City’s getting a federal grant to create a safe disposal system.
And guess where they're going to have disposal pick up points? We'll give you three guesses and the first two don't count:
  • Chicago Aldermen and City officials agree they don't want people flushing their expired prescription drugs down the toilet, and some—like North Side Alderman Marge Laurino—suggest setting up receiving boxes for old pharmaceuticals at police and fire stations.

    But, city Environment Commissioner Suzanne Malec-McKenna says the law requires police to be around whenever controlled substances are turned in, so Fire stations are out.
Fantastic! We're going to have all sorts of substances (controlled, toxic, expired, and who-knows-what) collected in what? Vaults? Flag disposal boxes? Who's liable if some junkie or homeless guy swipes a bunch of crap? Or someone dumps a leaky container inside the vault and creates some toxic brew?

Does OSHA want to weigh in on this one? Or the FOP Safety Committee? Before the City starts installing SHARPS containers and some low bid Chinese made cardboard "safe" in the lobby?

And before anyone says we're complaining and not contributing to the solution, here's a link to the Illinois EPA that lists collection points all over the State, County and City that collect not only hazardous waste, but unwanted medicines with a handy schedule. Just because some Daley relative needs another municipal contract supplying medical waste containers doesn't mean we have to use police stations as dumping grounds.

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33 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

what s the harm in a little toxic exposure? we have homeless living/sleeping and sometimes dying in our station hallways.hep-c,aids,TB....what s a little poison?

5/13/2008 12:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Why can't they do it at hospitals and drug stores like Walgreens, Osco, etc.? I think they may do this already... all they need to do is educate the stupid public.

5/13/2008 03:14:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Keesing Bandit says---

When they set up these disposal sites in the police stations, could the desk personnel please look for Prozac?

I'm dangerously low.

Now, kees me you fool!!!

5/13/2008 05:27:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How about this, let the dept of HEALTH do the job, or maybe, let the numerous hopitals in chicago handle it.. OOOPs. There I go thinking logically again.
Next we'll be riding garbage trucks as a way to save money on police vehicles.

5/13/2008 05:38:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe I can save on the high cost of prescription drugs now that I can just drink the water instead.

5/13/2008 07:06:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I thought our toilet water, etc. went DOWN the river, past the water reclaimation processing center at Central ave., to the Illinois and then Mississippi rivers.
doesn't our drinking water come from Lake Michigan?

Maybe our water filtration is just as phony as the blue bag recycling program.

5/13/2008 07:42:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is a scare tactic to make more people buy bottled water so the city could collect the tax.

5/13/2008 07:53:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SCC for president!!!

5/13/2008 07:58:00 AM  
Blogger mr.jones said...

I thought most of the drugs in the drinking water was attributed to human urine. Isn't sewage treated but they can't remove the drugs from it, and this "clean" water makes it back to our lake?

5/13/2008 08:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is ridiculous. The only drop-off points will be in the 25 districts. More exposure to all sorts of crap. A previous poster mentioned dropping the meds off at a hospital or Walgreens,CVS etc.,no way, we don't want to bother those people. Let the police take on another job. I'm waiting for the jagoff to come into the station and claim,"my grandma dropped off the OxyContin, I need to get it back." When the police refuse the CR numbers will start rolling in.

5/13/2008 09:33:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

And there are those who wonder why some people, me included, drink bottled water. I don't drink the purified water such as Dasani, I only drink mineral water.

I don't care that they say the levels are "safe"

Just remember all the shit that BP/Amoco and the factories in Gary and Hammond dump into the lake legally less than 10 miles from both intake cribs.

5/13/2008 09:48:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Great, something else to inventory.
FUCK THIS JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5/13/2008 10:28:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Does anyone have any blue bags?

5/13/2008 10:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Well THAT explains the decisions coming out of city hall and from toddler's office!

5/13/2008 10:49:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Maybe our water filtration is just as phony as the blue bag recycling program.

5/13/2008 07:42:00 AM

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Now THAT'S a scarey thought!

5/13/2008 11:41:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

maybe we can dig around in the vault and get something to treat our sgts bipolar disorder

5/13/2008 12:31:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Oh Oh

I see major Olympic troubles.

If the contestants drink mayor daley's polluted water will they pass the P test?

Of course they will, what's a trillion to one? Oh, a cancer molecule?

water kills, autos kill, locks, kill, ban everything. The whole world is silly silly silly.

5/13/2008 02:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Lets start with tese addresses for starters. 5780 ROGERS AVE
CHICAGO, IL 60646
5782 ROGERS AVE
CHICAGO, IL 60646
4404 LAWRENCE AVE
CHICAGO, IL 60630
5801 KENNETH AVE
CHICAGO, IL 60646

Just proves what the alderidiots think of us.

I think at every alderidiots office is a great place.

5/13/2008 03:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I could just see all the Irish coppers dumpster diving for the viarga.

5/13/2008 03:24:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

the toxins in the water is being done on purpose so we all have to buy bottled water and give the mayor his bottled water tax!

5/13/2008 03:35:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

$0.05 a bottle tax, what a coincidence????

5/13/2008 03:54:00 PM  
Blogger kateykakes said...

We got the warning here in Philly and the surrounding areas about drugs in the water a few months ago.

Personally, I think they need to start sprinkling a little more valium or prozac for some of those nut cases out there. It would definitely make them easier to deal with.

5/13/2008 04:51:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Free Prescription Drugs...in my water? I need something to get me through the day. Wonder what would happen if that was used as a defense against "random" drug testing. Maybe it's a ploy to get you to pay the 5 cents extra for bottled water :)

5/13/2008 05:11:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I am not very smart, but can someone help me with two things?

How many people could be flushing drugs down the toilet? I've flushed poopie diapers, vomit, leftover cereal, uneaten soup, maybe a cigarette, but never a pill. Wouldn't an awful lot of drugs have be to flushed in order to have the water test positive? And who are these large quantity pill flushers? Hospitals? Drug stores? Nursing Homes?

I did have the experience of having to call a hospital to ask for advice on disposal. My father in law died and I had 100 bottles of old people medicine. The hospital told me to run all the pills under water and then toss the pills in the garbage, because they will no longer be effective.

Wouldn't it be easier for the mayor to throw a hissy fit on tv and demand the public stop flushing and start washing unused pills? Then he can try doing something more intelligent and less embarrassing and ask the government for grant money to hire more police.

5/13/2008 08:46:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

IF the city did this correctly, we wouldn't have a problem.

Here's how the CORRECT SYSTEM would work:

1) Citizen comes in with drugs.
2) Citizen puts drugs in small inventory bag.
3) Desk heat seals the bag.
4) Citizen puts bag in a
'roundy round' type drug safe (like we already use) that is on the citizen side of the desk specifically for this purpose
5 Citizen leaves.

Here's how WE WILL do it.

1) Citizen comes in with drugs and presents ID
2) Officer puts each individual bottle in a inventory bag.
3) Officer logs into Prescription-CLEAR and obtains inventory number for each bottle
after counting to verify number of pills and putting the description in the proper field. (21 blue diamond shaped pills with 'VGR25' on one side and 'pfizer' on the other)
4) Officer fills out "Prescription drug turn-in report" CPD#21.111
5) Officer gets event number for "DRGTRN" (Drug turn in)
6) Officer then drops drugs into our already overflowing drug safe
7) Citizen gets receipt and leaves

Right way=5 steps -- Citizen does 4 out of 5 (80% of job)

Our way =7 steps --Citizen does 2 out of 8 (25% of job)

Anyone got a better scenario??

5/13/2008 09:16:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Chicago water is toxic. British Petroleum,(BP), is dumping tons of toxic sludge daily, within ten miles of the City of Chicago Lake Michigan water intake crypts.

ANYONE WHO BELIEVES OTHERWISE IS FOOLISH,IT WILL BE A HUGE BILLION DOLLAR CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT IN 30+ YEARS WHEN EVERYONE IS DYING OF CANCER.

BOYCOTT BP!!!

5/13/2008 09:55:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT SODIUM FLOURIDE IS,THIS IS WHAT THEY ADD TO YOUR DRINKING WATER TO MAKE YOUR TEETH STRONGER...

A TOXIC HEAVY METAL THAT DUMBS YOU DOWN!

5/13/2008 09:56:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

How abou all the crack they flush down the toilet during a raid?

5/13/2008 10:01:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Myabe daley could give his army kid (the one who sorts mail) a contract like the fake plumbing bullshit he knew nothing about as usual! Fuck daley another thing going to shit thanks daley and your entire criminalfamily!

5/13/2008 10:51:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://products.katadyn.com/brands-and-products/produkte/Katadyn_14.html

5/14/2008 11:29:00 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Anonymous said...
TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT SODIUM FLOURIDE IS,THIS IS WHAT THEY ADD TO YOUR DRINKING WATER TO MAKE YOUR TEETH STRONGER...

A TOXIC HEAVY METAL THAT DUMBS YOU DOWN!

5/13/2008 09:56:00 PM

That is why I am so stoopid, and don't respond to jobs like I did before! Thanks now I will sue daley and win the "ghetto lotto" thanks for the tip!

5/14/2008 12:22:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://www.brita.com/

5/14/2008 12:42:00 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

SCC,
When I piss hot can I blame the city drinking water???

5/15/2008 09:03:00 PM  

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