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I live about 3 miles away from Lithia Springs, but I can't seem to find any information online about how much lithium is actually in our drinking water. I know

by learc83 12y ago

I live about 3 miles away from Lithia Springs, but I can't seem to find any information online about how much lithium is actually in our drinking water. I know our water and sewer authority publishes a report on water quality each year, but I don't remember seeing lithium content in the report.

morganvachon 12y ago
I'm just inside Paulding County with a Powder Springs address, and that's who I pay my water bill to, but the yearly water quality reports I get come from Cobb County. It makes me wonder if Lithia Springs even gets their municipal supply from the spring, or from a Douglas County source.
- learc83 12y ago
  > It makes me wonder if Lithia Springs even gets their municipal supply from the spring, or from a Douglas County source. The spring is privately owned. Here it is on google street view [1]. Lithia Springs gets their tap water from from the Dog River Reservoir in the southern part of Douglas County. [1] https://www.google.com/maps/@33.8005688,-84.6403093,3a,75y,119.32h,87.77t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sbaehH8WENLgRKMsGz_NFzA!2e0 https://www.google.com/maps/@33.8005688,-84.6403093,3a,75y,1...
  - morganvachon 12y ago
    Thanks, I've never actually been to the spring itself, though we drove by there just today playing Ingress. I grew up in Cedartown, where the natural spring is also the town's water supply, so I just assumed it would be the same for Lithia Springs.
    - ryandvm 12y ago
      People play Ingress?!
possibilistic 12y ago
Not to detract from the flow of the conversation, but do any of us Atlanta-area hackers have any formal events or get-togethers? I'd love to meet some of you and hack on stuff.
- morganvachon 12y ago
  There's a hackerspace in Atlanta but I've never been there. https://wiki.freesideatlanta.org/fs/Info https://wiki.freesideatlanta.org/fs/Info
batbomb 12y ago
looks like .5 mg/L from Wikipedia
gwern 12y ago
> I can't seem to find any information online about how much lithium is actually in our drinking water. Not too surprising: I've done some poking around looking for datasets measuring lithium in drinking waters (the existing epidemiological work is, IMO, surprisingly small-n for something that seems to be routinely measured by drinking water systems), and it's pretty hard to find any lithium measurements.

by learc83 12y ago

morganvachon 12y ago

I'm just inside Paulding County with a Powder Springs address, and that's who I pay my water bill to, but the yearly water quality reports I get come from Cobb County. It makes me wonder if Lithia Springs even gets their municipal supply from the spring, or from a Douglas County source.

learc83 12y ago
> It makes me wonder if Lithia Springs even gets their municipal supply from the spring, or from a Douglas County source. The spring is privately owned. Here it is on google street view [1]. Lithia Springs gets their tap water from from the Dog River Reservoir in the southern part of Douglas County. [1] https://www.google.com/maps/@33.8005688,-84.6403093,3a,75y,119.32h,87.77t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sbaehH8WENLgRKMsGz_NFzA!2e0 https://www.google.com/maps/@33.8005688,-84.6403093,3a,75y,1...
- morganvachon 12y ago
  Thanks, I've never actually been to the spring itself, though we drove by there just today playing Ingress. I grew up in Cedartown, where the natural spring is also the town's water supply, so I just assumed it would be the same for Lithia Springs.
  - ryandvm 12y ago
    People play Ingress?!

possibilistic 12y ago

Not to detract from the flow of the conversation, but do any of us Atlanta-area hackers have any formal events or get-togethers? I'd love to meet some of you and hack on stuff.

morganvachon 12y ago
There's a hackerspace in Atlanta but I've never been there. https://wiki.freesideatlanta.org/fs/Info https://wiki.freesideatlanta.org/fs/Info

batbomb 12y ago

looks like .5 mg/L from Wikipedia

gwern 12y ago

> I can't seem to find any information online about how much lithium is actually in our drinking water. Not too surprising: I've done some poking around looking for datasets measuring lithium in drinking waters (the existing epidemiological work is, IMO, surprisingly small-n for something that seems to be routinely measured by drinking water systems), and it's pretty hard to find any lithium measurements.