Preble man's flammable tap water finally gets the states attention
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- Опубликовано: 9 апр 2024
- PREBLE, N.Y. - For more than 20 years, Frank Holden has been living in his Preble home doing everyday tasks like drinking water, taking a shower and doing laundry, just like everyone else.
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Dudes getting FREE GAS, that’s the problem they will fix, not the poison water.
You made me spill my coffee I laughed so hard :)
Sad part is that it is true, the company will be more worried about the loss of revenue than anything else.
Property values now skyrocketing!
@@SammasambuddhaNo, the actual property is skyrocketing.
@@davidpawson9047 😂
Bottle and keep that! Develop an engine that takes it, save thousands lol
If only. This is crazy!
"We won't do anything with reporters there"
The age old cry of government incompetence.
I would consider this corruption rather than incompetence. Can you imagine a fire department refusing to send a crew to a house fire because reporters might be present? These bureaucrats need to do their jobs transparently or be held accountable.
@@theresagomez2605 ,
Here's another thought, bouncing off the firemen theme: if this is a problem throughout the area what would happen if firemen came to put out a house fire, tapping into that water supply?!?!? 💩😒
They don't want reporter in case they found some old government toxic waste burial or such...
"We are from the government and are here to help!"
no smell = no odorant = natural seepage into the ground supply
They literally left him in a house with flammable water for five years!! Who knows what long term damage this has done to his health?!?!
What kind of silly billy stays in a house with five years knowing that the water is toxic?
Oh wait, this is New York. That explains everything.
Imagine trying to put out a fire with the garden hose...
Suddenly water lights up like fuel and your entire hose is on fire 😂
@@mariuszmoraw3571Sounds like there trying to finish the job that's all 😂
*Tap-fed Flamethrower!* 😂
Big Jimmy, "You heard about Steve?".
Old Bob, "Damn shame".
😬😬😬
I understand the local fire dept has problems putting out fires
😅
Yikes!
Underrated comment, ... 😅
Wow
Well, I always heard you gotta fight fire with fire??
There you go ....
Get a few chickens & solar panels...
They're ALL over you!
... flammable water? NO PROBLEM!
So true..
The government has lost what its purpose was supposed to be a long time ago
Don't you dare call it a conspiracy.
Milwaukee County, took their time addressing the increase lead in water. But you will have a city worker camping your house when you clean out your garage. "Solid Waste Violation".
They'll be out if you threaten to dig your own well.
The government hates competition. Especially if you can get the resources they'd normally sell you by just working hard for yourself! :3
this is water from his own well, the state doesn't go around drilling wells for people....
@@LygerTheCLaw Actually via some federal programs, yes they do.
@@christopherkidwell9817they sure haven’t for anyone I’ve ever known. And I personally know hundreds of people with their own wells. (Including myself…)
My former landlord had to drill a well for us because the old one went dry. They did most of the work themselves and it still cost them $14,000 and that was 10 years ago or more.
Prediction: The state will declare his well dangerous, along with anyone else’s well on the same aquifer and condemn their properties leaving them homeless.
🤔🤔🤔🤔😳😵💫
That's exactly what they'll do. They have no obligation to provide his property with a new well. It's his property. The well is his responsibility.
That's what I was thinking when they mentioned a well. If it's his well, it's his responsibility, but if the areas source of water is from a large centralized well that the city is responsible for, then its up to them to fix it. This news story didn't make that information clear, as far as I noticed anyway. The point is, if you own your own property and water well, don't involve the authorities in private matters when you don't have to! You're just inviting big problems for yourself, and possibly other local private property owners too!
Everytime I like controversial comments like the OP a unknown error occurs, interesting.
no smell = no odorant = natural seepage into the ground supply
not a damn thing the gov can do...
This is true. Also I'm not sure how it's the state's responsibility if there is a natural gas pocket that leached into his well water, other than to condemn the use of wells in the entire region.
"Years and years and finally it's getting attention"
This statement☝🏽
They wouldn't let reporters there!? What the heck are they trying to hide?
NY DEC is largely a broken organization. They got some serious egg on their face when they claimed "rumors of toxic waste buried in drums on the northrop waste dump site are unsubstantiated". and they refused a ground penetrating radar survey, A few years later (3 weeks ago) they accidentally find multiple buried drums.
Sounds like natural gas infiltration
"Sounds like natural gas infiltration". By natural gas do you mean methane? That would be my guess.
@@bradbauman7594 'Natural gas' is about 70%-90% methane. OP is just using the common term.
There isn’t any drilling anywhere near Syracuse.
@@pauledwards1157It can naturally leak out CV of the earth's crust. In SW Virginia, NG can sep from the rocks in those mountains. People tend to forget, the earth's crust floats on magma and natural aquifers. The gas builds up to pressure, then finds the easiest path to vent.
@@pauledwards1157gas companies have bought rights all over CNY.
This gives new meaning to the term "firewater".
Interesting you would use that terminology because there is a large Indian reservation near his home.
@@dianarockwell6256 Oh yes, the Onondaga Nation's territory.
When they sued 400 times for cancer causing water, they might think about fixing it.
Naah. *They* don't pay if they lose. The taxpayers do. They'll just hike your water rates to pay for it.
Who is “they”? It’s naturally occurring gas. Are you going to sue Mother Nature? Educate yourself, don’t be emotionally manipulated by dishonest reports like this.
Why would they be sued? It's a private well, not city water. THE ONLY PERSON RESPONSIBLE IS HIM. If and on if, there is an outside cause to the 'gas' in the water table would someone else be responsible. Maybe there is a nearby underground pipeline that's causing it, but that's not the fault of the state.
@@-Primer- Bet your first thought was to blame Trump... LMAO
Exactly that's so deadly
I've seen this in many wells in upstate NY where natural gas is common in the ground. Sulfer gas is another.
it's because of fracking btw.
@@OgdenMno, not always. I worked in water treatment services in the 90’s. This was not an uncommon problem. Hydrogen sulfide was more common though.
What’s the iron connection? If he has a well, can it be a reaction with some water treatment?
@@OgdenM I saw this in the 60s before fracking existed. Companies actually bought the mineral and gas rights for properties. Upstate NY is very gas rich.
So what's the best guess what'll happen? Condemn the wells affected? Start mining for natural gas? Pipe in good water? They should provide him with free water delivery for drinking and cooking at a minimum. I hope he doesn't end up homeless
Thank you for bringing it to the viewer’s. That city should be ashamed!!!
Viewers not viewer's LOL back to school please
@@markylonarguing grammar on youtube is just low hanging fruit. 'your' pathetic
@@markylon the next time you make a typo you better not immediately edit it buddy
@@apersoniguess_ I make typos but I check before I hit send or I delete and repost, I care what I sign my name against.
It’s a private well the city and state have no responsibility for it!
Maybe this is what other places have problems with where there has been an uptick an extreme house explosions we have heard on this news recently... this is actually bonkers 😮
Good observation, but doubt it. This happens mostly with properties that have their own water well. Those house explosions were mostly connected to water utility service that bleeds out any gas in the water storage towers.
you have no idea what you are talking about dont even comment.
@@ThecultofCon same could be said about your youtube channel
@@ThecultofConyou need a mirror 😅
They want to get paid but don't want to do there job...
When they don't do there job vote them out of office
Sounds like The World Economic Forum!
@@DonaldRichards-mr3lzthese aren't elected officials
You spelled their wrong, genius
@@DonaldRichards-mr3lzyou also spelled "their" wrong
Nassau lake. Same problem 40+years ago. Check cancer and birth defects rates in your surrounding areas.
It’s nothing to do with insufficient, it’s very clearly ineptness and apathy!!!
"How did you get all those burn scars on your face?" "I washed my face with water."
They won't do anything with reporters onsite, what a joke! Everyone should get some cash!!!! But, that is probably tax money and so..... Wow, flammable water..... horrible.
Ikr
"Honey, can you turn up the heat?" "Yes dear, let me pour some water on it."
I would be a bit concerned about lighting it up inside my home. But that's just me. LoL
If the regulatory agencies do ANYthing, it'll be to tell the dude to stop using well water.
...and they'll walk off, shaking their heads, thinking "Simple ideas for the simple-minded..."
Im surprised they didn't just condemn his house.
Give them time
Hope no ones house catches fire
And don't smoke in the shower!
THIS IS 100% NATURAL. Read a book sometimes.
Natural gas comes from THE GROUND.
Here are some gases that can come from the ground (all are flammable):
Carbon dioxide
Hydrogen sulfide
Carbon monoxide
Ozone: Ozone is not flammable on its own, but it is a powerful oxidizer that can start fires, accelerate combustion, or cause explosions.
Ammonia
There is a gas company roughly 1.5 miles up North, too. Could be both. No idea where the pipes are.
@@Kkubey no smell = no odorant = natural seepage into the ground supply
There is a gas company there because that area is full of gas in the rocks. This has been happening for decades. It's not a conspiracy - it's completely natural.@@Kkubey
@@karmaandkerosene2885 I wouldn't say it's a conspiracy, I don't believe people would do this sort of harm just for the sake of it under normal circumstances. But I wonder whether something related to the operation could affect it. Could of course also just be a bad setup in the water provision.
His well is pulling low amounts of natural gas out of the ground with his water. Filtering his water will take care of this problem. FYI. There is no fracking within 50 miles of this town so that's not the problem.
*rolls his eyes* As if natural gas can't spread more then 50 miles through the water table.
@@OgdenM The more likely possibility is the gas is seeping upwards from the known gas field deposits in New York state in and around this area.
@@ItsEricAZ no smell = no odorant = natural seepage into the ground supply
@@zarthemad8386 Yep and it's likely seeping in from local natural sources deep underground. Ironically, fracking may be the best way to remove this problem. Buy New York state has banned doing it.
before you say that, check with the DEC to see where wells are in Cortland County. I know from visiting quite a few in that county. Also remember why the city of Cortland banned oil and gas wastes from the sewer plant. I was working on the old TV factory's treatment system at the time for treating flowback or produced water, but that put an end to that. Now here in Susquehanna County, there are issues, but normally messed up vertical wells when they first came in, but even some later ones. Normally south of a well out to 3000 meters with a failed casing that or one where they got it into a fault line. (note sunoco hit that fault 40 years ago and when they fracked it and yes they had a different type of fracking back then there was a 3.0 earthquake) That was a bugger and did some testing with the DEP around there.
Looks like he may have a lawsuit if he has had or ends up with medical problems.
Absolutely
Try proving the water is to blame.
@@mymartianhome thanks to the lawyers and victims of the past 30 years it has become much MUCH easier to prove health issues tied to tainted water, soil, food and air supply.
There are places you can send water to be tested. But it seems like there's a gas mixed in with his water, so as soon as the sample is opened, the gas may escape. How would they even test for something like that?
Maybe they'll dig holes near his well to see what kinds of natural gases that are flammable might be there.
@@recoveringsoul755 that’s why the container would be opened in a controlled environment. 😉
They wouldn't do anything with reporters there? That's some shady ass stuff.
It’s a private well the city and state have no responsibility for it!
It sounds like natural gas getting into the well water. He should look into how it could be captured, so he can use it to heat his home with for free.
1:56 highlight: Walter starting to say inept but then changes it to insufficient. Omg i wanna get a coffee w this guy and hear the unpolitic version 😂
Imagine being a fire fighter there.
“Greatest country in the nation”
Sounds like his home was built on a natural methane well yes those exist folks for instance the Labrea Tarpits is a natural oil well site and natural methane wells tend to be more common in mountainous regions due to the funneling effect created by stone masses.
Thanks I was thinking about that too
You are confusing the low IQers with facts!
If his water was not like that before, but it is now, it was not built on a natural methane well. In New York State, where this town is, before you build a house, you have to have the soil tested, you have to have the water tested. All of those things had to have been done when the house was built, and if the homeowner is savvy, every time the house is sold, it should have these inspections as well. he’s not that far from Cornell University which will do a lot of this testing if it’s in between a sale.
@@dianarockwell6256 Think of where his well is, like you would think about a place that develops a sink hole. The land underneath was fine 10- 20 years ago, but erosion slowly starts making the ground unstable. After 20 years of water being pulled out and filling back up, it’s started to erode the surrounding area. It’s a logical conclusion of you think about it.
I was working on the Metro purple line project right in front of the la Brea tar pits and let me tell you. All that gas is a pain to deal with, they had to get subs to pump some h2s out of the ground and try to air it out a bit before they started the tunneling work
That is absolutely insane!!!!
Next Election vote all the people out of office that did nothing to fix that water problem
Why is there a charge for gas on my water bill??
Please don't give the government any ideas!!!
Looks like he has what's called "Agua Ardiente", ("Fire Water"). If he bottles 🍾🍾🍾 and sells it, they will come after him for sure! 😂😅
Yet we are all paying for EPA
EPA is Federal- this is State. State is supreme.
And considering how the EPA was gutted under the previous presidency, no, we are not all paying for the EPA 😂
@WilliamLaakkonen Um, under the Supremacy clause of the US constitution, federal beats state.
So, suppress EPA and leave everything to companies' good will? Or let's make EPA strong?
@@cheese671GU the problem w EPA is that there are foxes in the hen house.
This is outrageous! Please keep us updated !!!
Weird this flammable water is in Burning Springs... it must be a total coincidence that the town was called that 100 years ago and the water problem is a result of something new. 🤡
Does the Fire Dept. use the same water source? 😮😮
Thank you Walter Hang
They wont do anything with reporters there? Why? What do they have to hide?
I used to joke my jeep will run on water if it wanted to. Challenge accepted.
So THAT'S how Stanley Meyers did it!
(Car that ran on water)
...he was murdered after revealing it.
He was murdered because his re-invention would put auto makers and oil companies out of business. Sadly there has likely been many good people silenced in order for the elites to remain at the top pecking order. Exactly why they teach children garbage in school these days, they don't want American people to be smart they want to keep us dumb and its working 4th ,5th and even 6th graders cannot read, cannot write especially cursive writing, they don't know how to fill out an envelope to mail a letter or write a letter
This is seriously messed up. I pray all corrupt people go to prison.
That’s how we make the moonshine !
This dude' water is fire
no its not. the water is not on fire, the gases that were trapped within the water just seperated from the water and rose to the top of the bottle. The gases are what is "on fire" and it only last a couple seconds because there is not that much gas there.
@@orion7741thank you for having a brain brah
@@BillyCrystal-hc5jpsays the idiots taking a joke so seriously you felt like you had to explain it 😅
Unbelievable 😡
Exactly what happened at Camp Lejeune North Carolina from 1953 to 1987.( On base laundrymat dumping cleaning chemicals into water table).
We could set our showers on fire but no one would do anything to fix it.
I'm thankful we have pure water in our well here in Alaska
Water isn't supposed to catch on fire? Lol. Thanks for that. We are all a little dumber after hearing that statement.
It's acknowledging the ridiculousness of the situation.
@@chewygaming1 Supposedly, but it is STILL a very stupid thing to say. There could have been a million things she could have said that didn't make her sound like an idiot.
Dude WHY TF ARE WE PAYING TAXES!!! 🤬
Remember it took YEARS for anyone to do anything about Flint, MI, which is a pretty large city.
"Won't do anything with reporters there."
🤨
And yet, nobody bats an eye over Mt. Dew.
You can ignite Mt dew?
@@doriancoreyscloset421 No, but it does have a fire retardant chemical in it.
@ge2623 I'm sure thats part of if not totally the reason it's banned in other countries. I just had one yesterday. Gonna try and make it my last
Wow…my favorite soft drink…DIET Mt. Dew, that is. For the caffeine content but no sugar crash. Now I have to go back to black coffee or no sugar Monster Energy drinks!
@@ge2623 you are misinformed. The ingredient was removed from all Mountain Dew products in 2020, so 4 years ago
It's not that no one cares about the problem.
It's that no one who cares works these kind of jobs.
There just jobs.
You clock in.
You clock out.
Thats it.
You know when something is true because everyone hates the answer equally. This species hates true things _hard._
This is freaking scary!!!!
His water is from a well at his house. Well isn’t shared. Some people don’t seem to understand this.
Don't wells just drill into the groundwater, which lots of people also have wells drilled in to, like the other man who said it's been a problem for years?
He needs to get an attorney ASAP! Five years and this is just now getting on the news? He should have called the media sooner!
This is well known. He obviously has a methane pocket next to his well. This has NOTHING to do with fracing.
Well, since you know the answer get hold of the officials out there and let them know.
Unbelievable 😮
The amount of chemicals you sip with water in the US is amazing 😊
Good work, this is why local news is so important
Don't be so foolish a little research will explain what causes this , and it's not pollution or chemically caused .
@@Trackratz-zl9di That's the point: the state didn't even want to come out and do the research until media got involved. He pays his taxes, he deserves clean water or, at minimum, for somebody from the state to look into it. You know, the "little research" you mentioned.
@@addanametocontinue That's not how it works . You take a sample and depending on your area submit it to either the county or the state and they analyze it .
holy shit lol
The best job to have with a pension is the government. What other job allows you to screw up or be incompetent and not get in trouble or fired.
The government knows exactly what they're doing. Its the people who are incompetent. The people have 1 job. Vote for leaders. And instead they vote for politicians. They act proud of it too 🤮
This has been happening for lots of people in diifferent states for years.
Wait this was NY?!
I thought this was the mid west.
RIGHT? I got to that part and started paying more attention O_O
I thought for sure this was a midwest issue.
@@kylek.6243 mandella effect
Marcellus Shale. Marcellus NY. It's massive and connects to 4 other states.
@@SB-qm5wg Thanks, I googled this and learned something new today! And it turns out that Preble is a tiny city, so who knows if the problem will ever be fixed.
Preble here in Upstate NY
So, what do i use to put out a fire then?
Gasoline
The gas company came over and said your water line and gas line are connected to each other. You have been drinking our unmetered gas. Here is a bill for $100,000.
Omg that is just incredible and terrible. I hope the people gets the solution.
He needs to call a natural gas drilling company and retire somewhere else
Yep.
Someone's fracking in the area...
Nope
I hope that man is able to sue the state! How miserable to not be able to use water! He probably spent a fortune on water jugs.
This is gross negligence by New York in not investigating this. This is a clear violation of federal standards in that it takes an outside group to tell New York that it must clean up this mess as is their responsibility from the start. If a company is responsible they can force that company to have to pay for all the cleanup and even make money in fines againt that company so they really have no excuse to not figure out this issue unless they themselves are responsible.
Typical state ignoring citizens
But don't pay your taxes and they'll be all over your aft!
Fracking does this.
Not in Syracuse, NY…or anywhere else for that matter.
@@pauledwards1157 ruclips.net/video/z0fAsFQsFAs/видео.htmlsi=Xl0CLmr-J4ZUqWJ2
it does sometimes, but this is actually a very common occurence that has happened for as long as we have been recording our history and with deep water wells. its a completely naturally occuring situation that natural gas can start to leach into water wells as the water level drops.
@@orion7741 natural gas is call "natural gas" because it naturally emits from the soil.
guy is just on a bad patch of land where the gas is naturally venting
Natural gas comes from soil. It's called natural gas. No fracking near this guy. Instead of doing nothing for 5 years. Waiting for the gov. I'm guessing a simple filter would have fixed the problem.
USA never cease to amaze me.
Like for real, flammable tap water???
It being NY, I'd say they were short cutting the water purification process and the water has poop methane in it
The water is from his well
Just figuring out that fracking is a freaking problem holy moly
He needs to call a natural gas drilling company and retire off the huge profits he’ll reap.
No fracking up there, do research.
You’re just clueless. There aren’t any natural gas wells anywhere near Syracuse.
It occurs naturally in some areas.. Burning Springs (insert your favorite place here___ after you google it)
Watch the local utility company send him a monstrous bill for 20 yrs worth of gas; and a cease and desist order, plus the county staple a red page notice Unfit for Habitation Order to his front door, and order him out of there. but they need to find the source of where its coming from, my guess its a broken pipe or its from gas or oil fracking locally somewhere.
This happens naturally in some places. He just needs to have a vent put on his well. It isn't the state or the city's problem.
People been lighting tap water on Fire for years now. Everyone need to get check just to be safe.
Is there fracking in the area?
Surely there is
@@knowledgeispower6192 Burning springs would burn before the first well was frac'd
This sounds like the American army in every country ,even in the states own land, leaking gas into local water sources.
God bless all
Might be a good thing, save on gas for your car.
Trust me if they know you can use it in your car----------IT WII GET FIXED-----OR TAXED.
Watch the movie 'Gasland'.
Alarming wake-up call.
Thank goodness this gentleman never had a fire at his home. My god what incompetence. No wonder the representatives of the State DEC were too cowardly to appear on camera. Bureaucratic bungling at its inept best.
Oh wow. That’s right near me.
There are problems all across the country. No one saves residents when their water services are negligent. Fining utilities and regulatory agencies doesn’t give people safe water.
If the gas and oil are fracking any where near you take a number and stand in line this has been happening in about all the states that has allowed fracking for years
A lot of regarded people here that don't understand how the government works.
Someone, somewhere is fracking.
That homeowner better not get any kind of water bill what kind of Township is that that doesn't care about its residents and people wonder why more and more people are moving out of the state of New York they had it up to here
Makes perfect sense in a mining area. The area we were in was coal mining and the water tasted like iron and stained the sinks orange.
Thanks for the man from Toxic Target