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Sleeps | 10 |
Bedrooms | 3 |
Bathrooms | 1 |
Half Baths | 1 |
Property type | cottage |
Minimum Stay | 1 - 7 nights |
Do you crave a quite retreat to replenish your spirit? Away from the daily grind? Watch the sun set over the mountain, or the frequent weekend fireworks. Catch that big bass you have dreamed about or spend a morning in the nearby Marsh bird watching? It is all here waiting for your pleasure on our one acre lot! Over 180 feet of level shoreline, large fire pit, dock, private boat launch. Located within a short drive to many of the area wine trails, Watkins Glenn Race track, and the Wind Mill the larges outdoor Amish Mart. Our cottage is great for fishing, boating and touring you can not swim because of the mud bottom. Lamoka lake is a lovely medium size lake well known for bass, and small lake fish, Muskies and many more! We have a row boat, two canoes and will be adding two kayaks.
We have many repeat renters because we care about your vacation. We are centrally located to most of the wine trails.
From the moment you park the car you will be amazed at our lovely location. The brick walk beacons you into our semi-modern cottage. Granite counter tops in the kitchen for that must have cook, and a gas fireplace for those romantic nights. Central location to the wine trails (within 20- 45 minutes)
The first floor bedroom has a king size bed and a crib, couch and chair for sitting and reading (only available June-September non insulated space.) There is a half bath on the first floor and full bath on the 2nd floor (stairs to both bathrooms.)
Upstairs you will find 3 bedrooms, two with full size beds and one with a set of bunk beds and a twin for the kids. Large bathroom with tub and shower.
Some of the cottage is moderen and some still has that vintage cottage feel. You can find peace and quite from the crowds in several areas. Our first floor summer bedroom with reading or visiting area. We have a reading play room off the kitchen with chairs and a day bed and a large spacious living room.
Most or our guest use the cottage as a central touring rest stop. We are within 20 minutes away from many of the fingerlakes wine trails. Corning Glass is about 45 minutes away. Watkins Glenn State Park about 15 minutes. There are some great hiking trails at Sugar Hill and we have many back roads for biking. There are two public golf clubs within 15- 25 minutes away.
We offer a semi private location w/ wood lot on both sides of home & a large flat lawn. We have a nice fishing spot and a roomy 18 year old cottage-2100 sq. ft.! The kitchen is fully stocked, big bathroom & roomy bedrooms plus we are pet friendly. Our lake front is mud and muck but there are public beaches nearby. Great place to fish, tour or just relax! Linens are not included. Renter must bring their own sheets and towels.
Rest & Relax: Many guest comment on our peaceful setting and the nice fishing. We have people who return yearly and have written comments in our guest book. We are located 20 minutes from Watkins Glenn speedway (via back roads seldom a hassle in getting to the race track).
Our cottage is large enough to visit with family or to get away from the family and quitely read and rest. Maybe you just need some down time, quite time, time for you. you'll love our small community very friendly summer people. Do you want a cottage facing the lake where you can just relax? Take the kids to the park or beach and come back to relax.A good place to read, relax or call home base after a long day of touring. Fishing is good on Lamoka Lake and we have nesting eagles near by check us out!
Things to Do: The area's finest wineries are an easy drive from the cottage. Many antique dealers in the region, & the popular outdoor 'Windmill' featuring Amish baked good, smoked sausage, & cheese. The Windmill is only open Saturday stop before you arrive at the lake! Corning glass about 40 minutes from the cottage, kids go free! Hang Gliding in Big Flats (40 minute drive). The cottage has two canoes plus there is a private boat launch.
My Grandfather developed the island, my fondest memories were there at the lake. My Mother had a cottage and I was lucky enough to aquire one as well.
Patricia Clark purchased this cottage in 1988
The cottage is away from most of the other cottages. It sits off the main road near a small wood patch. My idea of heaven! A few years ago the property behind our cottage was developed and I was blessed by the nicest neighbors one could ask for! They keep to them self and most often are found deep in the woods on their lake front.
Fishing is excellent BUT no swimming because our waterfront is a mud bottom. The area has beautiful, scenic farms, rolling hills with many vineyards and a large Amish population. Great place to drive or hike!
I love the area it is beautiful. When you look across the lake there is a mountain. In the fall the leaves change and the reflection on the water is breathtaking. Then there are the wine tour runs...our NY wine is excellent!
We are with in 20-45 minutes from the major wine trails. Watkins Glenn is just over the hill (20 minutes),
Nearest highway is Route 17 and Route 226. The nearest road intersection would be Rt. 226 and Laomoka Lake road, our cottage is about 1/2 mile off of Lamoka Lake Rd. a level dirt road in good condition.We have a boat lauch too!
Curtis Air Museum near Hamondsport (15-20 minutes), Hamondsport is a charming town with many curio shops and the Kueka Maid Cruise boat that also offer lunch or dinner Kueka Lake Cruises.
Corning is only a 40 minute drive and they have the Glass Museum, and many fine restaurants, outlet stores and the Remington Museum. The Windmill is about 15 minutes away open only on weekends with many Amish vendors, crafts, and local wine merchants. The Best thing to do is just some R & R at the lake!
Other Activities: wine trails
Golf: Goal course in Penn Yan (20 minutes from cottage). New course recently open in Wayne (10 minute drive)
Rate Period | Nightly | Weekend Night | Weekly | Monthly * | Event | ||||
Spring and Fall
May 9 2015 -
Jun 19 2015
1 night minimum stay
My Standard Rate
7 night minimum stay
cleaning 2 hrs free | $0 |
Pet Fee | $50 |
Refundable damage deposit | $200 |
Notes | Pre-Season/Post Season MAY JUNE /SEPT / or OCT t $860 week prefer Sat- Sat. Daily or $160/night 2 night mid July 1st to Labor Day $1300/week Sat-Sat . $250/night 3 night min. Cleaning fee of $0/up to two hours [leave it clean as found no fee] Trash is to be taken to dump sight only open Sa. 8 am to 11 am 5 minutes away. Rates are quoted for group size up to 7 add $200 8 to 10. |
* Approximate monthly rate. Actual rate will depend on the days of the month you stay.
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Selma man jailed for armed robbery
Published 9:05pm Thursday, August 15, 2013Thirty-one-year-old Josue Hebbeler stopped for gas and other items at the Chevron on U.S. Highway 80 East when he was held at gunpoint, threatened and robbed of all the money he had in his wallet — nearly $170. That was more than a year ago, on July 7, 2012. Three weeks later the man who was suspected of forcefully robbing Hebbeler, was arrested.
Wednesday, after more than a year has passed since committing his crimes, Selma native, Kendrick Gunn, 23, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for robbery by Circuit Judge Collins Pettaway.
District Attorney Michael Jackson was pleased Selma will have one less robber on the streets.
"We have gotten another robber and gunslinger off the streets," Jackson said Wednesday, after Gunn's sentencing.
In Gunn's written testimony he wrote he was outside of the Chevron that early July morning looking to get some quick money.
"I walked in front of the store. I then walked out of the sight of the front of the store and waited on the trucker to come out," Gunn wrote. "I could see the front of the store as well as his truck. Once he exited the store and got to the corner, I started walking up behind him pulling the gun from my pants."
Gunn wrote that once he got close to Hebbeler, he yelled for him to, "Give it up," as he pointed the gun at him.
Gunn said he used the money he robbed from Hebbeler to buy shoes and CD's.
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Shankman, AdamOverview
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Adam Shankman
by John Travolta
62 editions published between 2007 and 2012 in 7 languages and held by 2,980 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A teenage girl simultaneously pursues stardom as a dancer on a local TV show and rallies against racial segregation in her native Baltimore
A walk to remember
by Nicholas Sparks
34 editions published between 2001 and 2011 in 5 languages and held by 2,422 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Love brings together what peer pressure and lifestyles seek to keep apart. Jamie is a straight-laced preacher's daughter and Landon is an unmotivated delinquent. When events thrust him into her world, he begins an unexpected journey he'll never forget
Bedtime stories
by Walt Disney
33 editions published between 2008 and 2011 in English and German and held by 1,936 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Marty Bronson raises his son and daughter on his own. He has to sell his homey motel to Barry Nottingham who promises to make Marty's son manager. But, Nottingham pulls down the motel and builds a pricey hotel. Now grown up, Marty's son, Skeeter, works as a janitor and general servant. He still dreams of becoming the manager. When Nottingham announces a brand-new hotel, built on an existing school's property, he makes his future son-in-law, Kendall, manager. Skeeter's sister Wendy, has to leave town for a job interview and asks him to alternate looking after her two children Patrick and Bobbi, with Wendy's colleague, Jill. He doesn't get along with either Jill or the children, but his easy-going attitude loosens them all up. He starts telling the children bedtime stories and the children grow fond of him. They make suggestions about how the stories should go. When the stories become true in real life, Skeeter tries to maneuver the stories into a direction which will make his dream come true, too
Bringing down the house
by Queen Latifah
23 editions published between 2003 and 2012 in 3 languages and held by 1,856 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A divorced L.A. lawyer, Peter, thinks he has met the girl of his dreams online, until she shows up at his door and is a sassy, African American ex-con. She moves in and really begins to shake up his boring suburban lifestyle
The pacifier
by Thomas Lennon
12 editions published between 2005 and 2006 in 4 languages and held by 1,800 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Lt. Shane Wolfe is a tough-as-nails Navy SEAL who has controlled military operations in every corner of the globe. Now, the ultimate test comes when he's assigned to protect the home front, as in a house loaded with five out-of-control kids. But even when he trades combat gear for diapers and juice boxes, it becomes more than just a babysitting job
The wedding planner
by Jennifer Lopez
28 editions published between 2000 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 1,733 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A romantic comedy about love, marriage and other events you just can't plan for. Mary (Jennifer Lopez) is a successful, work obsessed wedding planner in San Francisco who finally finds a man of her own (Matthew McConaughey), or so she thinks. He turns out to be the groom in the biggest wedding of her career. Will she get the job or the guy?
The last song
by Julie Anne Robinson
9 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 1,704 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Seventeen, angry, and alienated from her estranged father, Veronica 'Ronnie' Miller's life gets turned inside out when her mother forces her to spend the summer with him in the small Georgia beach town where he lives. Here, Ronnie finds salvation, friendship, second chances, and first love
Rock of ages
by Tom Cruise
38 editions published between 2012 and 2013 in 3 languages and held by 1,676 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Drew and Sherrie meet in L.A. while pursuing their dream of life in the big city. Will their love survive the challenges the city throws their way? This musical features songs by Journey, Twisted Sister, Starship, REO Speedwagon, Foreigner, and many more
17 again
by Shi di er si
18 editions published between 2009 and 2010 in English and held by 1,572 WorldCat member libraries worldwide What would you do if you got a second shot at life? Mike's glory days are decidedly behind him. His marriage has fallen apart, he's been passed over for a promotion, and his kids think he's a loser. But Mike is given another chance when he is miraculously transformed back to the age of 17 and he's suddenly back at Hayden High Schol where he becomes the star of the basketball team, a total hottie and a classmate to his own teenage kids
Cheaper by the dozen 2
by Adam Shankman
20 editions published between 2005 and 2010 in English and Turkish and held by 1,410 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Tom and his wife Kate bring their clan together for a memorable summer getaway. Their dream vacation turns into an outrageous competition with the overachieving, overzealous family of Tom's longtime rival
by Sandra Bullock
10 editions published in 2007 in English and held by 1,184 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A housewife's life is shattered when she finds out that her husband Jim is killed in a gruesome car accident, but when she awakes the next morning, he is still alive and well. As she keeps having dreams about his death, she must decide what to do
Step up
6 editions published in 2008 in English and held by 1,032 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Andie is a spunky young women who is from one of Baltimore's grittiest neighborhoods. Her dance ability, which has been forged in fire on the streets, lands her in a prestigious performing arts school. There, she struggles to fit in. Her classmates are in awe of her talent and catches the eye of Chase, a guy from a privileged family. He becomes captivated by Andie's street dance moves and genuine heart
Step up revolution
by Kathryn McCormick
4 editions published between 2010 and 2012 in English and held by 824 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Emily arrives in Miami with aspirations of becoming a professional dancer and soon falls in love with Sean, a young man who leads a dance crew called 'The Mob'. When a wealthy businessman threatens to develop The Mob's historic neighborhood and displace thousands of people, they all work together to turn their performance art into protest art, and risk losing their dreams to fight for a greater cause
Step up
by Anne Fletcher
4 editions published between 2006 and 2007 in English and held by 492 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Tyler is a rebel from the wrong side of Baltimore¹s tracks. The only thing that stands between him and an unfulfilled life are his dreams of one day making it out of there. Nora is a privileged ballet dancer attending an elite school of dance in Baltimore. The only thing standing in the way of her brilliant future is finding a great dance partner for her senior showcase. When trouble with the law lands Tyler with a community service gig at Maryland School of the Arts, he arrives as an angry outsider, until his skills as a gifted street dancer draw Nora¹s attention. With sparks flying on and off stage, Tyler realizes he has just one performance to prove that he can step up to a life far larger than he ever imagined
Rock of ages : rock forever
1 edition published in 2012 in Multiple languages and held by 61 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Het plattelandsmeisje Sherrie gaat naar Hollywood om carrière te maken en wordt verliefd op de arrogante, excentrieke en woest aantrekkelijke rockzanger Drew
by Diana Landau
1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 44 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Going the distance
10 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and Croatian and held by 41 WorldCat member libraries worldwide A romantic comedy centered on a guy and a gal who try to keep their love alive as they shuttle back and forth between New York and San Francisco to see one another
The wedding planner My best friend's wedding
1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 41 WorldCat member libraries worldwide In The wedding planner, Mary is a successful, work obsessed wedding planner who finally finds a man of her own, or so she thinks. He turns out to be the groom in the biggest wedding of her career. Will she get the job or the guy? in My best friend's wedding, Julianne's best friend tells her that he met a woman and they are getting married in four days. Julianne realizes that she loves him and wants him for herself
Cheaper by the dozen
by Hilary Duff
2 editions published between 2008 and 2012 in English and held by 31 WorldCat member libraries worldwide Cheaper by the dozen: Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates problems for all the Baker kids, and chaos ensues
The Nicholas Sparks film collection
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 27 WorldCat member libraries worldwide The notebook: A wealthy young woman must choose between true love and a match her parents approve of more
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African American women Babysitters Bereavement Brothers and sisters Carey, Ernestine Gilbreth Centers for the performing arts Children of clergy Community service (Punishment) Dance Dancers Families Father and child Fathers and daughters Fiction films Florida--Miami Georgia Gilbreth, Frank B.--(Frank Bunker), High school students High school students--Conduct of life Hotel cleaning personnel Hotelkeepers Housewives Husband and wife Illinois--Chicago Lawyers Long-distance relationships Man-woman relationships Maryland--Baltimore Mass media and race relations North Carolina North Carolina--Beaufort Overweight persons Parent and teenager Race relations Rock musicians Sports rivalries Storytelling Students Suburban life Teenage boys Teenage girls Teenagers Teenagers--Conduct of life Traffic accidents Uncles United States United States.--Navy.--SEALs Vacations Weddings Young women
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In many areas of Bangladesh, it has been more than six years since a national campaign to test tubewells for arsenic (As) was conducted. Many households therefore draw their water for drinking and cooking from untested wells.
A household drinking water survey of 6646 households was conducted in Singair upazilla of Bangladesh. A subset of 795 untested wells used by 1000 randomly selected households was tested in the field by trained village workers with the Hach EZ kit, using an extended reaction time of 40 min, and in the laboratory by high-resolution inductively-coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (HR ICP-MS).
The household survey shows that more than 80% of the wells installed since the national testing campaign in this area were untested. Less than 13% of the households with untested wells knew where a low-As well was located near their home. Village workers using the Hach EZ kit underestimated the As content of only 4 out of 795 wells relative to the Bangladesh standard. However, the As content of 168 wells was overestimated relative to the same threshold.
There is a growing need for testing tubewells in areas of Bangladesh where As concentrations in groundwater are elevated. This could be achieved by village workers trained to use a reliable field kit. Such an effort would result in a considerable drop in As exposure as it increases the opportunities for well switching by households.
Arsenic; Field kit; Well screening; BangladeshBackground
Elevated exposure to inorganic arsenic (As) is associated with cancers of the skin, bladder, and lung [1-3], reproductive and developmental effects [4,5], cardiovascular disease [6,7], and skin lesions [8,9]. In Bangladesh, millions of people are exposed to naturally occurring As concentrations that exceed the World Health Organization (WHO) guideline of 10 μg/L [10]. During the 1970s, the United Nations Children's Fund, through the government of Bangladesh, promoted the installation of tubewells to reduce risks from drinking microbial contaminated surface water [11]. In the early 1990s, evidence began to emerge that Bangladeshi villagers were presenting signs of arsenicosis due to the consumption of well water with elevated levels of As [12]. An As testing campaign relying on field kits and targeting 5 million wells in regions identified to be at risk for As contamination was initiated in 2001 and completed in 2004. By 2005, 1.4 million tubewells were found to have levels of As above the Bangladesh standard of 50 μg/L and were painted red, while another 3.5 million wells were found to be below the standard and were painted green [10]. It is estimated that approximately 12% of households presently drink water in Bangladesh that does not meet the Bangladesh standard for As [13].
The impact of As mitigation in Bangladesh, though significant, has been limited to a variety of approaches that currently serve roughly half of the affected population. The most common As mitigation option followed in rural areas has been well switching [10]. This involves switching from an As contaminated well to a nearby well that is safe relative to the Bangladesh standard for As in drinking water. Because of the spatial heterogeneity of As in groundwater well switching has been estimated to be a viable option for reducing exposure for all but 13% percent of the population that lives in areas with greater than 80% arsenic contamination [10,14]. Testing well water for As has been shown to reduce As exposure in villages of Bangladesh due to well switching on the basis of household surveys as well as urinary As measurements [15-17].
In this contribution, we report the results of two phases of a study conducted in Singair upazilla (subdistrict) of Bangladesh: 1) a sizeable household drinking water survey paired with the collection of geographic data; and 2) testing of a subset of wells of unknown status with a field kit by trained village workers as well as laboratory measurements. The household drinking water survey was conducted to determine the status of wells used six years after a blanket testing campaign for As swept through the area.
Sampling design
The study was conducted in rural Singair upazilla, located in Manikganj district of Bangladesh. This study area was selected on the basis of an expected wide range of As concentrations and the presence of the Christian Commission for Development Bangladesh (CCDB), a non-governmental organization that assisted with the implementation of this intervention. The first phase of the study was a household drinking water survey conducted in 26 villages; this survey did not involve well testing. The second phase of the study was an As testing intervention in which village workers conducted field As measurements for 1000 randomly selected study households using a well of unknown status.
The household drinking water survey was administered to all 6646 households in the 26 villages that could be contacted from November 2009 to January 2010 (Figure 1). Villages with at least 40% of wells exceeding the Bangladesh As standard (50 μg/L) were selected using data from the Bangladesh Arsenic Mitigation Water Supply Project (BAMWSP). Interviewers were sent to every household present in each of the villages to administer the survey questionnaire to the person in the household responsible for primary drinking water collection. For each household, the survey obtained information on the As status of the household's primary drinking water source, the well depth, well installation date, and if the well was painted based on the As concentration. For a subset of 10 villages, the position of each well was determined with hand-held global positioning system (GPS) receivers within an estimated accuracy of ~10 m. Because a typical private well is shared by several households, two on average, information was recorded repeatedly for a significant number of wells.
Figure 1. Map of study area. Pie charts represent the proportion of untested, safe, and unsafe wells based on household recollection in 26 villages. Black dots indicate the location of 1000 study households with an untested well randomly selected from a subset of 20 out of 26 villages where the household drinking water survey was conducted
In the second phase of our study, a subset of 20 villages meeting our study eligibility criteria of having at least 40% of wells exceeding the Bangladesh As standard (50 μg/L), and at least 50 individuals who met the study eligibility criteria using the results of our household drinking water survey were selected to be part of an As testing intervention that was conducted from March to June 2010 (Figure 2). Based on a village census created from the household drinking water survey, 50 households with untested wells were selected at random from each of the 20 villages. Thus, the total study population was 1000 households. The primary drinking water source for each selected household was tested for As by village workers trained as part of the project. Because some of the 1000 study households shared the same tubewell, this survey covers only 795 previously untested tubewells distributed across the 20 study villages.
Figure 2. Study design of household drinking water survey and arsenic testing intervention in Singair, Bangladesh.
Twenty village workers were selected to conduct the As testing intervention by CCDB. They were a convenience sample, selected based on their ability to complete a reading and writing test. Their educational level ranged from completion of secondary school certificate to higher secondary school certificate (Grades 8-13). None had previous laboratory experience or prior experience using this field testing kit. Each of these village workers were trained to use the Hach EZ kit (Part No. 2822800) for one day and assigned a study village to conduct water As field measurements. Village workers were responsible for testing the wells for the 50 households using untested wells randomly selected in their assigned village. They were asked to conduct additional tests to locate a nearby low-As well if the well used by one of the 50 assigned households turned out to be unsafe. After testing, a green or red color placard was placed on each well based on compliance with the Bangladesh standard for As in drinking water.
Field water arsenic measurement
The Hach EZ kit requires the addition of 2 prepackaged reagents, sulfamic acid and zinc powder, into a reaction bottle containing a 50 mL water sample. These reagents produce arsine gas if As is present. This arsine gas is trapped on a reaction strip impregnated with mercuric bromide. The yellow to brown color of the strip is then compared to the reference scale provided by the manufacturer. The scale indicates the intensity of the color expected for As concentrations of 0, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, and 500 μg/L. A 40 min reaction period was used in this study rather than the 20 min recommended by the manufacturer because a previous study showed that the increased reaction period reduced inconsistencies relative to the Bangladesh As standard in the 50-100 μg/L range [18]. The kit has an optional step to eliminate interference by hydrogen sulfide; this was excluded because sulfide levels in Bangladesh are generally too low to cause interference [18].
ICP-MS analyses
Water samples were collected in 20 mL acid-washed bottles while the wells were tested in the field. The samples were acidified to 1% with high-purity Optima HCl at least 48 h before analysis. This has been shown to ensure re-dissolution of any As that could have adsorbed to precipitated Fe oxides. Water samples were then diluted 1:10 in a solution spiked with 73Ge for internal drift correction and analyzed for As by high-resolution inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (HR ICP-MS), which eliminates the isobaric interference with ArCl. Further details are provided elsewhere [18,19]. The detection limit of the method for As is typically < 0.2 μg/L, estimated here by multiplying the As concentration corresponding to the blank by a factor of 3. The long-term reproducibility determined from consistency standards included with each run averaged 4% (1-sigma) in the 40-500 μg/L range.
Ethics section
The study protocol was approved by the Columbia University Medical Center Institutional Review Board and the Bangladesh Medical Research Council. Informed consent was obtained from all study respondents.
Household drinking water survey
Approximately 60% (3989) of respondents interviewed for the household drinking water survey were able to recall the depth of their current primary drinking water source, and 95% (6310) could recall the year of well installation. More than two-thirds of the wells were reported to have been installed within the past 10 years (Figure 3). The rate of installation within each 2-year period increased over the past 10 years, but particularly so during the last 2 years. The reported well depths ranged from 12 to 1400 ft, with a median of 75 ft. When the median of reported depths for wells installed since 2000 is subdivided by year of installation, there is no appreciable change in well depth over time. For example, no two years differed in median well depth by more than 5 ft. Each year is represented by at least 90 values.
Figure 3. Status and year of installation of wells reported by 6649 households residing in 26 villages of Singair upazilla.
Of the 6646 respondents interviewed, 3739 (56%) reported that their well had not been tested for As, 2424 (37%) reported that their well had been tested, and 483 (7%) reported that they did not know whether their well had been tested. Of the tested wells, 1053 (43%) were reported to be safe relative to the Bangladesh As standard of 50 μg/L, 868 (36%) were unsafe, and for 444 (18%) the As status of the well was unknown. Ninety-five percent of the wells that were tested no longer had visible labeling of the As status of the well (i.e., green for safe or red for unsafe). The proportion of untested wells within individual villages ranged from 46 to 83% (Figure 1).
When considering the proportion of untested wells by year of well installation, there is a significant increase over time (p < 0.001 by ANOVA) (Figure 3). For example, 25% of wells installed before 2000 were untested, while roughly 90% of wells installed in the year prior to the survey were untested. Each year is represented by at least 80 values; wells installed in the years prior to 2000 were collapsed to reduce the likelihood of recall bias. A randomly selected subset of 698 households with untested wells were also asked if they knew where a drinking water source considered safe with respect to As was located near their home. Less than 13% (89) of these respondents knew where such a water source was located.
Within the subset of wells that were tested, the proportion of unsafe wells changed over time. Considering two-year intervals for robustness, a significant decrease in the proportion of unsafe wells over time is observed: 54% of wells installed prior to 2000 were unsafe compared to 21% of wells installed between 2008-2010 (p < 0.001 by ANOVA) (Figure 3).
Arsenic testing intervention
Groundwater As concentrations determined by HR ICP-MS are used as the reference for evaluating the performance of the field kit deployed by village workers. The HR ICP-MS data indicate that As concentrations in the sample range from 0.1 to 437 μg/L, with a median of 54 μg/L. Following the standard interpretation of kit results, a reading above 50 μg/L classifies a well as unsafe relative to the Bangladesh standard for As in drinking water. According to this criterion, the EZ kit underestimated the As content of groundwater relative to these two thresholds for only 4 out of a total 795 samples (Table 1). At the same time, the EZ kit overestimated the As content of groundwater relative to the Bangladesh standard for 163 out of 795 samples. For the vast majority of the overestimates relative to Bangladesh standard, As concentrations were in the 10-50 μg/L range (Figure 4).
The largest As testing program in Bangladesh was the BAMWSP survey, conducted between 2001 and 2004 [17]. That survey tested and labeled for As nearly half of the country's 10 million tubewells [16,20]. Thus, in many regions it has been more than six years since the nationwide testing program was conducted. In a study conducted in Araihazar, Bangladesh, it was found that the number of tubewells approximately doubles every two years [21]. If this is the case in other As affected areas, this would imply that the majority of wells in the country are untested for As. In a 2009 national survey conducted by UNICEF and the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics, it was found that 44% of tubewells in the country were untested [13]. Although there have been many attempts by NGOs and government agencies to provide access to As testing services, many households continue to collect water from untested wells [10,22-28].
Our results from Singair indicating that more than 80% of the tubewells installed during the past 6 years are untested for arsenic is alarming, but not inconsistent with previous observations. The distribution of well ages may provide some evidence for the reason underlying the continuing installation (Figure 3). Unless there is a recall bias, there is no reason to believe the rate of well installation really was actually higher during the past 2 years compared to the four previous 2-year intervals. The apparent sudden increase might suggest instead that a significant fraction of wells are abandoned within the first two years of installation, as suggested by observations elsewhere in Bangladesh [15].
Beyond the first ~100 ft (30 m), the concentration of As generally decreases with depth in aquifers of Bangladesh and there is no reason to believe this wouldn't apply to Singair. The decreasing proportion of unsafe wells within the subset of tested wells over time may therefore at first sight seem surprising given that the depth of wells has not changed. Comparison of trends in well depth over time suggests a possible explanation when tested and untested wells are distinguished (Figure 5). About 25% of the tested wells installed over the past decade in Singair were > 200 ft deep whereas this is the case for only 15% for wells of untested wells. The difference is even more striking for wells > 300 ft deep, typically community wells primarily installed by NGOs or the government. The proportion of deep wells has increased markedly within the group of tested wells whereas very few such wells were untested. This suggests that deep wells installed by NGOs and the government, as well as a sizeable fraction of wells > 200 ft presumably installed by relatively wealthy households, are tested while the shallower wells are not. The trend towards a greater proportion of safe wells within the tested subgroup probably reflects this bias rather than more effective targeting of safe aquifers by all new installations.
Figure 5. Comparison of depths of wells of known (1325 households) and unknown status (2648 households) as a function of installation year in 26 villages of Singair upazilla.
To quantify the impact of a growing proportion of untested wells on access to As safe drinking water relative to the Bangladesh As standard as determined by BAMWSP testing, the distance to the nearest well known to be safe from previous testing was calculated for a subset of 499 study households located within 10 villages for which the position of both wells and study households was known (Figure 6). This calculation shows that only 27% of households reside within 50 m of an As safe well and another 28% within 50-100 m of a low-As well (Figure 7).
Figure 6. Close-up view of the spatial distribution of well status in 3 study villages based (a) on the survey and (b) on one of the 10 simulations.
Figure 7. Distribution of distances to the nearest well for a subset of 499 study households residing within villages where the location of every well was determined. The area includes 299 unsafe wells, 294 safe wells, and 1208 untested wells. The survey calculation considers wells known to be safe only; the simulation randomly assigned a safe/unsafe status to the wells of unknown status reflecting the 50/50 proportion throughout the study area. Vertical error bars indicate the range in the proportion of distance categories observed for ten such simulations.
Previous work has shown that households rarely switch to a private low-As well if it requires traveling more than 100 m each way several times a day [15,17]. If the nearest safe well is within 50 m, the well switching rate in one study area was shown to be 68%, while if the nearest safe well was greater than 150 m away the well switching rate declined to 44% [15]. Ten stimulations were conducted to estimate the potential impact of testing all the untested wells in the same area by randomly assigning a status to untested wells based on the proportion of safe and unsafe wells observed in the study area (50%). The average of all simulations for each distance category shows that testing all of the untested wells within the study area could increase the proportion of study households living within 50 m of an As safe drinking water source from 27 to 67%, and decrease the proportion of households living greater than 100 m away from an As safe drinking water source from 45% to 17%. Collectively, these findings indicate that renewed As testing could significantly reduce exposure.
The results obtained by village workers using the EZ kit and an extended reaction time of 40 min are encouraging and consistent with previous observations [18]. The increased reaction time markedly reduces the number of wells for which the As content is underestimated relative to the standard to increase, but there is clearly a trade-off. The longer time also causes the number of wells incorrectly classified as unsafe relative to the guideline to increase. This reduces the number of wells that a household with an unsafe well could switch to. Given the growing evidence of significant health effects of As exposure in the 10-50 μg/L range, on the other hand, overestimates are clearly preferable to underestimates of the As content of well water [29-31].
The WHO guideline is currently not applied in Bangladesh but our results show that [32,33], using a 40 min reaction time, the Hach EZ kit underestimated the As content of 10 out of 795 wells relative to the 10 μg/L threshold (Table 1). The Hach EZ kit also overestimated the As content of wells for 43 wells relative to the WHO guideline.
Our household drinking water survey confirmed that there is an urgent need for water As testing in affected areas of Bangladesh. A simple spatial simulation based on the observations shows that testing of wells of unknown status is likely to significantly reduce As exposure by providing information on low As drinking water sources available to households. Our evaluation of the Hach EZ kit using a 40 min reaction time shows that trained village workers will in the vast majority of cases correctly classify wells relative to the current Bangladesh standard for As in drinking water, and could even do so relative to the WHO guideline.
As: Arsenic; BAMWSP: Bangladesh arsenic mitigation water supply project; ICP-MS: Inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry; LDEO: Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory; NGO: Non-governmental organization; WAs: Water arsenic; WHO: World Health Organization
Competing interests
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Authors' contributions
CMG directed the field study, performed the statistical analysis, and wrote the manuscript. AVG and JHG directed the studies and revised the manuscript. JM was involved in the laboratory analysis of the water samples collected and revised the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
This study supported by an Earth Clinic grant from the Earth Institute at Columbia University and NIH grant number NIEHS ES P42 10349. Christine Marie George was also the recipient of an Environmental Protection Agency Star Fellowship and a Fulbright Fellowship. We thank the Christian Commission for Development Bangladesh (CCDB) and our arsenic testers for their participation in the project. We would also like to also thank the staff at the Columbia University Arsenic & Health Research office in Dhaka and interviewers from the Department of Geology of Dhaka University for their tireless support. Yan Zheng (UNICEF) provided comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.
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President Barack Obama created it in 2011 and filled it with prominent business leaders and economists. Its authority runs out Thursday, and the White House says it's not renewing the panel.
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Worried about how you�re going to heat your home and pay the bills this winter?�You�re not alone. With the economy still in trouble and utility companies raising their prices, many families are going to struggle to make ends meet during the coming cold months.
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Love love love those black/white stripped curtains! Do you know where they're from?
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All these rooms are beautiful..I especially love the coffee table in the room by sixth street design. So dang fun! Have a great weekend.
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Thanks for featuring my Drapes! Cant wait to take a look around your blog. I love the whole display in room #3 but seriously love the convex mirror.
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Hi Natalie, It's me again...I painted the monogram on a super sized sheet of MDF. I should post a tutorial someday...I found the image on the internet, blew it up at Office Max, traced it and painted it. Super easy. Thanks again for visiting!
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Title: | VARIATIONS IN ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY OF ANOXIC-OXIC BLACK SHALE - CARBONATE SEQUENCES IN THE PENNSYLVANIAN OF THE MIDCONTINENT, USA (KANSAS, OKLAHOMA) |
Author: | WENGER, LLOYD MILLER, JR. |
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Abstract: | Two cores containing thin organic-rich phosphatic black shale members, the Excello and Little Osage shales, and transitional lithologies from Pennsylvania cyclothems of southeast Kansas and northeast Oklahoma were characterized by geochemical and organic petrographic methods by very detailed sampling. Variations in relative amount of primary organic material, i.e. liptinitic versus humic, exerts a major control on the nature and quality of the organic profiles. Organic petrography, Rock-Eval pyrolysis, n-alkane and isoprenoid distributions, and C$\sb{27}$/C$\sb{29}$-sterane ratios indicate that shallow-water, more oxic facies (e.g. fossiliferous shales and limestones) contain dominantly terrestrial organic matter while "deep" water phosphatic organic-rich black shales contain significant proportions of marine algal organic matter. Pyrolysis Transformation Ratios ${\rm (S\sb 1/S\sb 1 + S\sb 2)}$ were lower for facies with significant marine components sugesting differential kinetics of bitumen generation for marine versus terrestrially-derived kerogen. Vitrinite reflectance (%R$\sb{\rm o}$) values were suppressed in liptinite-rich anoxic black shale facies relative to the coal "benchmark." Anoxia levels varied within the sequences and had significant influence on several geochemical parameters. Oxidized facies, although having low total organic carbon (TOC) contents, tended to have increased TOC-normalized bitumen and hydrocarbon contents and increased diasterane/normal sterane ratios. Anoxic facies had higher TOC and bitumen contents, contained larger proportions of non-hydrocarbon extractables, and had lower diasterane/normal sterane ratios than oxidized facies. Highly (negatively) fractionated $\delta\sp{34}$S values for pyrite (and polar bitumen) in organic-rich black shale facies indicates extensive open-system sulfate reduction operated during diagenesis. Enrichment of V and Ni, and especially an increasing V/Ni + V ratio, coincide with increased anoxia. A reversal of conventional "terrestrial lighter than marine organic matter" carbon isotope relationships in organic-rich black shales was linked to utilization of isotopically-light "recycled CO$\sb 2$", derived from organic matter decomposition. Eustatic sea level rise and rapid transgression over the craton, with flooding of adjacent brackish-marine (peat) swamps and resultant influx of large supplies of nutrients and humic detritus, appears to be the key geologic control of black shale deposition. The nutrients fostered high algal productivity while terrestrially-derived organic matter provided a sink for oxygen which enhanced anoxia. |
Citation: | WENGER, LLOYD MILLER, JR.. (1987) "VARIATIONS IN ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY OF ANOXIC-OXIC BLACK SHALE - CARBONATE SEQUENCES IN THE PENNSYLVANIAN OF THE MIDCONTINENT, USA (KANSAS, OKLAHOMA)." Doctoral Thesis, Rice University. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/19061. |
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Martin Van Buren
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Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States. Before his presidency, he was the eighth Vice President (1833%E2%80%931837) and the tenth Secretary of State, under Andrew Jackson (1829%E2%80%931831). Van Buren was a key organizer of the… Read More
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Martin Van Buren was born in the village of Kinderhook, New York, on December 5, 1782, about 25 miles (40 km) south of Albany, New York.
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Van Buren was admitted to the bar in 1803.
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Van Buren married Hannah Hoes, his childhood sweetheart and first cousin once removed, on February 21, 1807, in Catskill, New York.
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He allied himself with the Clintonian faction of the Democratic-Republican Party, and was surrogate of Columbia County, New York from 1808 until 1813, when he was removed.
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After 12 years of marriage, Hannah Van Buren contracted tuberculosis and died on February 5, 1819, at the age of 35.
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In February 1821, Martin Van Buren was elected a U.S. Senator from New York, defeating the incumbent Nathan Sanford who ran as the Clintonian candidate.
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As chair of the Judiciary Committee, he brought forward a number of measures for the improvement of judicial procedure and, in May 1826, joined with Senator Thomas Hart Benton in reporting on executive patronage.
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In November 1828, Van Buren was elected Governor of New York for the term beginning on January 1, 1829, and resigned his seat in the Senate.
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On March 5, 1829, President Jackson appointed Van Buren Secretary of State, an office which probably had been assured to him before the election, and he resigned the governorship on March 12.
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In April 1831, Van Buren resigned as Secretary of State as a result of the Petticoat affair—though he did not leave office until June.
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He was cordially received, but in February, he learned that his nomination had been rejected by the Senate on January 25, 1832.
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When the election of 1836 came up, Jackson was determined to make Van Buren, his personal choice, President to continue his legacy.
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On the expiration of his term, Van Buren returned to his estate, Lindenwald in Kinderhook, where he planned out his return to the White House. He seemed to have the advantage for the nomination in 1844; his famous letter of April 27, 1844, in which he frankly opposed the immediate annexation of Texas, though doubtlessly contributing greatly to his defeat, was not made public until he felt practically sure of the nomination.
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Martin Van Buren then retired to his home in Kinderhook. After being bedridden with a case of pneumonia during the fall of 1861, Martin Van Buren died of bronchial asthma and heart failure at his Lindenwald estate in Kinderhook at 2:00 a.m. on July 24, 1862.
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