OOOPs???,

I was ready to bleach the water in the 55 gal drum and then realized that I used WAY TOO MUCH bleach to clean the things out. I used like two cups! OF course, it was rinsed two times after that so that all liquid was out, BUT

will there be residual bleach on the sides of the drum? It still has a bleach smell (I guess!).

PS. Glad you are "censoring" the trolls. let them complain all they want. most of us have already made the decisions long ago to risk "wasting" our time and money to prepare. So what the hell if we want to pump millions more into the economy for the polly non-event.

-- oops? (toomuch@bleach.com), November 22, 1999

Answers

Go ask your Mommy or your Daddy.

on de rock

-- Walter (on de rock@northrock.bm), November 22, 1999.

You're better off using too much bleach than not enough. You can always air the bleach out before using the water.

-- anonymous (anonymous@anonymous.com), November 22, 1999.

Nah - it's going to be like the shampoo bottle says, rinse twice, repeat.....the odor might be strong for a few minutes, but ignore it.

Best idea, use it to wash the algea off your driveway or walls.

-- Robert A. Cook, PE (Marietta, GA) (cook.r@csaatl.com), November 22, 1999.

Pleeease, do not give advice that may cause physcial harm to another if you are just guessing. Too much bleach is potentialy VERY very harmful. Chlorine is a poison. A deadly poison under the wrong circumstances. I have installed many water systems in my life, so you can believe what I am telling you. Even distilled bleach, if in a sufficient Parts Per Million solution, can cause serious harm if ingested. Also, do not immediately whiff a container that has been disinfected and stored with a lid on. Clorine gas may accumulate in the container, and harm may come to you if you are careless. OK?

Flush, flush and flush again until just the faintest smell is present. Some bodies can tolerate larger doses of poisons than others, but why risk it! Do not compound the first mistake, by taking unecessary short cuts.

You never know who may be listening, think about it, please. I don't mean to come off as an A**, I'm just worried someone may be hurt, OK?

Kindly;

Michael

-- Michael (mikeymac@uswest.net), November 22, 1999.

Do remember that gaseous chlorine was the war gas used at Yrpes which was the first major gas attack in WW1. Sterilization requires that you us something that will kill everything. Inhaling small amount of chlorine can give you chemical pnuemonia. On a 55 gal drum if there is no liquid bleach left inside it would be safe to put water in. See the text BLEACH.TXT at http://home.earthlink.net/~kenseger/surv/surv.htm for proper dosing.

If you make your own bleach using dry bleach always do it outside a goodly distance away from any wall so that the generated fumes can disperse easly.

-- Ken Seger (kenseger@earthlink.net), November 22, 1999.

I've just decided to boil my water instead, anyone else come to that conclusion?

-- Paula (chowbabe@pacbell.net), November 22, 1999.

Nope, takes too much energy.....filter it, but put some chlorine in the water stored anyway to keep the bacterial beasties from playing there (they also clog your filter).

-- Don Kulha (dkulha@vom.com), November 22, 1999.

Speaking of inhaling chlorine, do you realize that during the average hot shower, you inhale MORE chlorine into the lungs, where it is VERY rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream, than you get from drinking 8-8 oz. glasses of chlorinated water?

You can buy SHOWERHEAD chlorine filters, but they are very expensive, and as you can imagine, with a shower putting out about 4 gallons/minute, they are only good for a few months MAX.

BTW, CONTRARY to the stories about lung cancer from low-level radioactivity from isotopes in the soil, which you're close to when you are in your basement (radon gas), it is now believed that the majority of lung cancers in non-smokers is caused by this BATHROOM fog!

-- profit of doom (doom@helltopay.ca), November 22, 1999.

I agree with you Ken and Don. Please see Ken's site for safe, sensible info. Thanks for all your hard work Ken, (although it inkles of a labor of love.) [g]

Respectfully

Michael

-- Michael (mikeymac@uswest.net), November 23, 1999.