Re: [Texascavers] Water Filter for Toxic Metals

2015-11-06 Thread Allan B. Cobb via Texascavers
Rob, the easy way to remove most heavy metals is with a reverse osmosis filter. Activated charcoal will work to some extent on lead but not most other heavy metals. RO filters are not cheap and they can be finicky in the field. Here is some information on filters. http://environment.nationalge

Re: [Texascavers] reporters

2015-01-19 Thread Allan B. Cobb via Texascavers
I too was told in the media training that I got with the City of Austin not to ask to review the interview. Much of what I did was in front of a camera for TV news so speaking in short sound bites was always the safest. I did have a good, long standing working relationship with a reporter from S

Re: [Texascavers] TCR 2015 Survey

2015-01-07 Thread Allan B. Cobb via Texascavers
Gill, you should know better. You should never say never. I always used the third weekend of October. It was easy to find on a calendar and easy to remember. The only time I changed it was because of a conflict with PC. Allan From: Gill Ediger via Texascavers Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2015

Re: [Texascavers] Balankanche Cave, Yucatan

2014-07-30 Thread Allan B. Cobb via Texascavers
George Stuart and I became friends in his later years. He was instrumental in getting funding from some of the early cave archeology projects that I worked on. He really liked the cave work we were doing. George was a great story teller and he had LOTS of really amazing to tell stories about. H