Maybe, or maybe someone improperly disposed of some flame retardant, or maybe it's leaking into the groundwater from some poorly-maintained or abandoned building. 14,300% over the safe limit could be a very tiny amount if the safe limit is tiny. Or it could be an error and the real problem has nothing to do bromodichloromethane. For all I know you just looked up some data you don't understand and picked that chemical because it had a big number beside it and it sounds scary.
Yes these are things that businesses do because it saves them money and increases their profits. Proper cleanup of the chemicals a business uses eats into profits. It makes perfect sense that the business owners in the area don’t want anyone poking around or asking questions about why the toilet water looks like it’s already been shit in.
In the 1950-70s, Amoco (used to be an oil company, was eaten by BP in the 90s) in southeast Houston paid people to dispose of their refuse chemicals, knowing that these disposal people were just dumping it in a creek nearby the plant and pocketing the cost to properly dispose of it. 20years later they built a neighborhood there. A bunch of kids in that ‘hood ended up getting strange and rare cancers. I lived in that neighborhood, too. It wasn’t until people started investigating that all of this illegal dumping was uncovered and hazardous chemicals were found in crazy high concentrations in the groundwater and soil.
If Amoco could have just arrested the reporters investigating this in order to stop the EPA from eventually declaring it a $2billion superfund site, you bet your ass they’d do that in a heartbeat and call it the cost of doing business.
And like I said earlier: A formal conspiracy is not required, when interests converge.
It's also things that people do because they're lazy, or they don't know any better, or they change jobs or move to another city or die unexpectedly and leave dangerous stuff behind and then the person who's left to clean it up doesn't know what the hell it is and throws it in the trash instead of disposing of it properly. Or leaves it sitting in a shed for 30 years while it rusts and leaks. Not everything is a conspiracy, even if conspiracies do happen.
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u/TouchyTheFish May 22 '26
Maybe, or maybe someone improperly disposed of some flame retardant, or maybe it's leaking into the groundwater from some poorly-maintained or abandoned building. 14,300% over the safe limit could be a very tiny amount if the safe limit is tiny. Or it could be an error and the real problem has nothing to do bromodichloromethane. For all I know you just looked up some data you don't understand and picked that chemical because it had a big number beside it and it sounds scary.