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36 States Face Perchlorate Contamination {Water} - 4/23/2005 10:53:24 PM

knees2you

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It is appearant,
That all of Our Missle testing from the past
is Coming forward to Haunt us now!

36 States are affected with this stuff
In our water supplies!

Here is the Full Story~

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=519&ncid=519&e=3&u=/ap/20050423/ap_on_re_us/defense_pollution

quote:

"So often times it happens that We live Our lives in CHAINS that We never even know We have athe Key?"

Sincerely, Ant

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RE: 36 States Face Perchlorate Contamination {Water} - 4/24/2005 3:57:49 AM

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quote:

In February, the EPA issued a safety standard that any amount of perchlorate less than 24.5 parts per billion in drinking water was safe. That was much higher than the 6 parts per billion California set as a public health goal, and higher still than EPA's original draft standard of 1 part per billion, a proposal environmentalists embraced.

From what I remember of other news accounts, the danger posed by perchlorate is not well understood and remains an open issue in the scientific and medical community. This is why settling on a safety standard has been so difficult. And will make any lawsuit difficult.

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RE: 36 States Face Perchlorate Contamination {Water} - 5/3/2005 8:46:36 PM

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Dry cleaning operations, which use large aounts of perc, are the more likely sources of contamination. They tend to be 'mom & pop' shops that don;t do well at complying with EPA disposal guidelines (i.e. they're more likely to dump their waste down the drain, for eventual release to the water supply.

In terms of volume, commercial uses of perc simpyl dwarf anything that might be released by weapons testing.

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