Bruce’s Poor Man Survival Bulletin
A Digest of Urban Survival Resources
ISSN 2161-5543
In This Issue:
1.
When to test your well water system
2.
Reuse sink
water to flush-save 6000 gallons annually
3.
Where to hide
your money
4.
Simple,
portable backyard grill and fireplace
5.
Safe water in
emergencies resources
Mark Twain
Private Drinking Water Wells - Keeping your H2O supply safe
Emergency storm preparedness to help protect your drinking water supply
and wastewater disposal systems.
Major storms and hurricanes can result in flooding. What should you do to protect your drinking water?
Major storms and hurricanes can result in flooding. What should you do to protect your drinking water?
If your family gets
drinking water from a private well, do you know if your water is safe to drink?
What health risks could you and your family face? Where can you go for help or
advice?
EPA regulates public
water systems; it does not have the authority to regulate private drinking water
wells. Approximately 15 percent of Americans rely on their own private drinking
water supplies, and these supplies are not subject to EPA standards, although
some state and local governments do set rules to protect users of these wells.
Unlike public drinking water systems serving many people, they do not have
experts regularly checking the water’s source and its quality before it is sent
to the tap. These households must take special precautions to ensure the
protection and maintenance of their drinking water supplies.
Basic Information - Learn about the types of drinking water wells and
guidelines for proper construction.
Where You Live - Find information about private drinking water wells
in your region or state.
Frequent Questions -This page answers questions you may have about your well water.
Human Health - Learn about health risks associated with drinking
water wells.
Partnerships - Several organizations are working to keep private
drinking water wells safe.
What You Can Do - Learn how to do your part in keeping your drinking
water well safe.
Publications -Download or order copies of brochures, booklets,
posters, reports, and multi-media publications.
Major storms and hurricanes can result in flooding. What should you do to protect your drinking water?
The Safe
Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS) contains information about public water systems and their
violations of EPA's drinking water regulations, as reported to EPA by the
states. These regulations establish maximum contaminant levels, treatment
techniques, and monitoring and reporting requirements to ensure that water
systems provide safe water to their customers.
You may select systems
either by locating systems within a geographic area or by entering the water
system ID number. For more detailed information about the water you drink,
contact your local water supplier directly or call your state drinking water agency.
To find the phone number for your state's drinking water agency, click here or call the Safe Drinking Water Hotline at 1-800-426-4791.
For national and
state-by-state information, please see the Office of Ground Water and Drinking
Water's drinking water facts and figures page.
When should I test my well water?
Our well water smells a tad bit funky.
It’s possible it’s due to lack of regular use or there are contaminants
in it. I bought a test kit on eBay for
$20 to be sure…I also picked up some filtration systems to use on our faucets.
There are several
tests that, if done periodically, can help owners of private wells determine
whether they have safe, clean drinking water. Periodic testing will confirm the
quality of your well water. State well construction code requires that new
wells be tested before use. You should consider testing anytime you notice a
change in odor or taste.
In the worst case
situation, you may have to apply a shock chlorination treatment (as described
in the last resource link below).
Maintenance of
your well system
The Paratrooper's Water Purifier removes 100% of harmful, water-borne bacteria
such as:
E.coli
Staphyloccus aureus
Salmonella typhi
Vibrio cholerae
Legionella pneumophila
This personal filter
completely removes other contaminants from your water too. Dust, algae, and
other particles you don't want to drink are filtered right out! The
Paratroopers Water Purifier also significantly reduces the concentration of
heavy metals in your water, leaving you nothing but the freshest tasting water
that's clean and clear.
Not only does it work...it works FAST.
You won't sit around waiting for this little filter to do its job. The Paratrooper's Water Purifier filters an entire liter of water in just three minutes. Even better, you won't have to think about replacing the filter on your Paratrooper for a long, long time. It will filter up to 2,000 liters of water before the filter needs to be replaced. Learn more here:
Not only does it work...it works FAST.
You won't sit around waiting for this little filter to do its job. The Paratrooper's Water Purifier filters an entire liter of water in just three minutes. Even better, you won't have to think about replacing the filter on your Paratrooper for a long, long time. It will filter up to 2,000 liters of water before the filter needs to be replaced. Learn more here:
Or check out
this mini-straw filter, ideal for camping
The following ideas on
how to hide money are not foolproof. An experienced thief can find almost any
hiding place if he has enough time. Fortunately speed is important to a thief,
and there are ways to slow him down. Better yet, there are even ways to
convince him to leave before looking everywhere.
First, avoid the
obvious places which are always checked, like under the mattress, in dresser
drawers, closets, and small safes (the safe will be taken whole, to be opened
later). A list of better places can be found below.
But as part of your
plan to convince a thief to leave, some of your money should be relatively easy
to find. Why? Because, as thieves will tell you, they are going to tear apart
your home until they think they have found the bulk of the money and valuables
available. Even though they are in a hurry, they don't want to...
Reuse Sink
Water for Flushing-Saves 6000 Gallons
Interesting device
from the Aqus folks that installs in your bathroom sink in about an hour and
works with gravity fed toilets. Captures
used bathroom sink water and routes it to your toilet saving the average two-person
household 6000 gallons of water annually.
Priced around $190 - Learn more at:
Simple
Backyard Grill and Fireplace
We already had a nice
large burn pit circle, metal lined built in the center of a large concrete
patio. It’s a simple matter to stack
concrete block in a circular fashion around the pit along with recycled grill
racks. We also picked up a tri-pod with
hanging grill rack which can be used in a pinch (from a garage sale for
$1). Since the standard concrete blocks
aren’t cemented, they’re easily moved.
Quick n easy home- made
soft scrub for no-scratch cleaning - Mix 1 cup baking soda with some warm water
to make a paste plus a few drops of liquid soap. Apply to surface and let it sit for a few
minutes, then scrub with non-abrasive sponge and rinse.
The Nanny State Updates…
In the 21st
Century, the biggest threat to our personal freedom and liberty, our economy
and our middle class is the federal government. --The Poor Man
Big Brother
Regularly Ignores the Constitution and Bill of Rights
If you regularly carry
a cell phone around with you, you might as well say goodbye to your privacy.
The truth is that any cell phone you buy is going to track you wherever you go
24 hours a day. Just as you leave "footprints" wherever you go on the
Internet, so also your cell phone is constantly recording wherever you go in
the physical world. Most people do not realize this, but the reality is that
cell phones are tracking devices that governments, law enforcement authorities,
big corporations and even stalkers can use to easily track your movements. If
you do not know about this yet, then you are going to be absolutely amazed by
what you are about to read. Not only do cell phones track you wherever you go,
they can also be used to listen to your private conversations even when they
are turned off.
The FBI can remotely
activate the microphone on your cell phone and listen to whatever you are
saying....
The FBI appears to have begun using a novel form of
electronic surveillance in criminal investigations: remotely activating a
mobile phone's microphone and using it to eavesdrop on nearby conversations.
The technique is called a "roving bug," and
was approved by top U.S. Department of Justice officials for use against
members of a New York organized crime family who were wary of conventional
surveillance techniques such as tailing a suspect or wiretapping him.
The reality is that
the NSA has been monitoring all phone calls for years and years. According to USA Today, the NSA intends "to create a database of every
call ever made"....
The National
Security Agency has been secretly collecting the phone call records of tens of
millions of Americans, using data provided by AT&T, Verizon and BellSouth,
people with direct knowledge of the arrangement told USA TODAY.
Warren Buffett
on debt ceiling …worth repeating!
Warren Buffett, in a
recent interview with CNBC, offers one of the best quotes about the debt
ceiling:
"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election
The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc.
Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.
Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.
In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.
Congressional Reform Act of 2011
1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
"I could end the deficit in 5 minutes," he told CNBC. "You just pass a law that says that anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all sitting members of Congress are ineligible for re-election
The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, e-mail, cell phones, etc.
Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure.
Warren Buffet is asking each addressee to forward this email to a minimum of twenty people on their address list; in turn ask each of those to do likewise.
In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around.
Congressional Reform Act of 2011
1. No Tenure / No Pension. A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
2. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.
3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
4. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work.
If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S.) to receive the message. Maybe it is time.
THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS!
Yours for “the next
revolution”, the Poor Man
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