The CNBC article also stated that SpaceX, in its permit application to Texas regulators, said that mercury concentrations in one outfall location were more than 50 times limits set by the state for “acute aquatic toxicity.” The company, in its post, instead claimed that “all samples to-date have in fact shown either no detectable levels of mercury whatsoever or found in very few cases levels significantly below the limit the EPA maintains for drinking water.”
Gonna have to side with the EPA on this one, they have no incentive to lie about it. Maybe it’s not the deluge system causing it, but SpaceX really needs to find out what is causing the elevated mercury levels and fix it.
I’ve seen another thread in which someone shared what they claim to be a table of the actual data on which the accusation is based. Unless they were making it up entirely, then it’s pretty clear that the data is simply wrong. It was littered with what could only be typos involving misplaced decimal points, with consecutive measurements being different by almost exactly a factor of 1000
That was possibly my response to @fahfahfahfah@lemmy.billiam.net’s comment here. If you’d like to check the data tables for yourself, they included a link to the TCEQ report in their comment. The two tables I screenshotted in my reply are from pages 21 and 40 of the report.
