From: Johnlebl@aol.com
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 01:59:13 CDT
In a message dated 08/01/2002 11:22:38 AM Central Daylight Time,
blentz@prodigy.net writes:
> What is the correct protocol if you do contaminate a container? We dropped
> the spigot off of our 5 gallon collapsible in a creek. We ended up by
> treating about 2.5 gallons in the jug, and then letting it flow out over
> the spigot threads. No one got sick, but were we thorough enough?
>
> Thanks
>
That will work, but in your email to your son, running boiled water through
it won't "decontaminate" it. Neither will running filtered water through it.
Boiling it in water will. Running "Polar Pure" treated water through it
will. Running staffed camp "treated with chlorine" water through it MIGHT
decontaminate it. MIGHT is the key word here.
There is a lot less "treatment" of staffed camp water because it comes from
sources usually cleaner than streams. However, some does come from streams
via pumps and some, Crooked Creek 2002" by the bucket method.
John LeBlanc
Eagle Class of 1959
Phirst Phil Ptrek 1959
PhilTrek 2002 630H2 Trek 16
My latest adventure was yesterday,
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