From: Alan Thomson (abthomson@goes.com)
Date: Thu Aug 01 2002 - 11:31:10 CDT
Walter Feurtado answered...
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4. Rangers teach that water for cooking that will be brought to a boil does
not need to be treated. However, as an advisor, be very, VERY careful that your
deserts that require COLD water do NOT accidently get rehydrated with unpure
water.
Comment....
The above can't be stressed too much - the consequences of losing track of what
water is treated and what is not are severe. Our crews use 3 quart collapsible
Nalgenes for crew water. ONLY treated (by the crew with Polar Pure or if advised
at a staff camp that it is potable) water goes into personal water containers.
If we are going to just boil untreated water, we almost always put that water
directly into the pot and do it immediately. All untreated water in the crew
containers gets treated, beacause if you don't treat a container, it of course
becomes contaminated - at the next staffed camp it would be real easy to put
safe water into a contaminated container and forget that it must now be treated.
Oops.....
And realize that while the water at most staffed camps does not require treatment,
this is not universally true (Crooked Creek, at least in '99, and French Henry
in '01 used the streams, there may be others). And sometimes at camps with
normally treated water, the equipment is not working, requiring treatment (our
experience at 'Cito and Clarks Fork in '99). Do not assume the water is treated
- the Staff will tell you what the status of their water is.
- Al Thomson, Troop 236, Schooley's Mountain NJ
Advisor '99, '01, and ,03
Autumn Adventure '00 and '02
B&B '00 (Chas., didn't see your name in the guest book!)
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