stoichiometric_steve
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Why you should always dispose properly of your chemical waste
Because, as of late, it appears that home chemists and drug cooks are also being tracked down by local authorities monitoring waste water levels of
certain chemicals. And they get them!
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Jor
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I do not worry too much. I collect heavy metal waste and chlorinated hydrocarbons. The rest, I let evaporaste and something like excess aniline, I
burn.
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kclo4
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Steve, Do you have a reference to this? I would like to see it. 
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harrydrez
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Honestly, sounds a little paranoid. Yes, waste water is analyzed, but not to "catch drug cooks". I work in a lab that does just that (we test all
kinds of waters, soils, airs for metals, organics, etc.) Effluent water is tested for pollution control purposes and stuff like that.
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Fleaker
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I don't know... it ought to be possible to isolate where the contamination is coming from and get it down to a pretty small area. But for the
authorities to go through that much trouble, I would have to think there would need to be massive amounts of either drugs, explosives, or heavy metal
residues that would justify their time and expense.
Neither flask nor beaker.
"Kid, you don't even know just what you don't know. "
--The Dark Lord Sauron
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sparkgap
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I think I posted this before...
sparky (~_~)
"What's UTFSE? I keep hearing about it, but I can't be arsed to search for the answer..."
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MagicJigPipe
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In our current environment of overzealous paranoia I would not doubt it too much if law enforcement were to tap into someone's sewer line looking for
drug precursors and metabolites. It is already done "anonymously" to check drug use levels in major cities.
Imagine how that would add to their case against someone if they found methamphetamine metabolites in the sewer. Even though it proves nothing I can
see dumbass LEO attempting to use such invasive procedures. Maybe not now but in the near future.
I'm not extremely familiar with sewer systems but I do know that if they gained access to your property (or close to it) they could probably determine
that the chemicals or metabolites were yours and not someone else's. Can anyone confirm or comment on this that knows more about sewer systems?
"There must be no barriers to freedom of inquiry ... There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any
question, to doubt any assertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors. ... We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it and
that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. And we know that as long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think,
free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost, and science can never regress." -J. Robert Oppenheimer
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vulture
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They'd have to tap directly into your connection to the communal sewer without compromising the chain of evidence. That means they'll have to bring
somebody from the company or service that runs the sewers and they'll be doing it right under your nose, so it'd be hard not to spot. They'd also have
to catch you the moment you are flushing it. Very hard to prove.
It could, however, convince a DA to give some overzealous cops a search warrant.
One shouldn't accept or resort to the mutilation of science to appease the mentally impaired.
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stoichiometric_steve
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| Quote: | Originally posted by harrydrez
Honestly, sounds a little paranoid. Yes, waste water is analyzed, but not to "catch drug cooks". |
just because your company doesnt do it, doesnt mean nobody else does.
sparky, great post! it's real.
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chloric1
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Its real but vulture is right, they atually have to tap into your connection.
But, in the event you are visited by some fuzz at your house, having contaminated soil, house, or whatever would definately look bad. In the eyes of
the authorities, disorganization,contamination and chemicals haphazardly stored seem to be more likely connected with illicit activity. A well
thought out and locked storage cabinet would make easier to convince them you are into legal stuff.
Many heavy metals can be reclaimed and organics burned.
Fellow molecular manipulator
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