Are there any dangers that can be linked between lead bullets and the water supply?
I don't know what it takes, but it just seems ironic to be shooting tons of toxic metal around and never picking up the slugs. When it rains does some of the lead wash down into the water supply?
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If the lead is headed towards your water supply, (your body), then you have a problem. The enormous amount of water in nature, and the relatively tiny amount of lead in relation, makes this a non-problem. It’s good to be concerned with pollution, but I’d like to figure out how to clean up those floating islands of trash drifting near Hawaii and Japan. Together the mess is covering an area the size of Texas, and is a horrible threat to sealife, not to mention an hellacious statement about our stewardship of this planet.
some but i doubt enough to do much harm. You’d need a s*** load of bullets to do any real harm and they’d have to all be in the same place
The lead is in the very center and coated with copper or whatever, it wont seep out so there is no danger to the water supply.
Water pipes were made from lead in the past.
The amount of lead in the environment due to expended bullets is negligible compared to the amount of lead present in natural ores of lead such as galena, cerussite and anglesite. You wouldn’t want to drink the runoff from the area around a lead mine, and you wouldn’t want to drink the water around military training facilities where there is a great deal of expended ordinance. It is unlikely that lead bullets constitute much of a danger in most other municipal water supplies.