| December 13, 2006 – Volume 7, No. 49 |
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This
week's NEWS
What do you do
if you get an anonymous
letter from IPMC in a "plain vanilla"
envelope? Send one back to EPA's "splinter
cell" and
your congressman, of course! Huge legal $$ettlement
of Santa Monica's MTBE problem is
close at hand. Lead compliance is
a sometime thing... but lead pipes still
need to be removed. Which
fine is higher: US$19,600 (for
3600 persons) or 35,000 UK pounds (for
670,000 persons served)? It isn't that easy
NOT to flush
drugs down the toilet! Water rap: Good, better,
best! Never let it
rest. Until your good
(water) is better, and
your better is best!
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MTBE: Legal Matters
Security
Disinfection
Byproducts
Legal
Issues
Aesthetics
Lead
Chloramines
and Lead Revisited
- Research
shows association between chloramines
and blood lead levels but not cause-and-effect
relationship (Environmental
Science and Technology, December 6); the
full report is available (Environmental Health
Perspectives, November 7; PDF file, 868 K)
Commentary: It
is instructional
to read the full
report rather
than just the abstract that was linked earlier.
A person looking
only at the graphs of raw data on pages 31 and
32, showing the blood lead levels in children
before and after chloramines were introduced
in a North Carolina system compared to those
living in areas that did not get chloraminated
water, might be tempted to ask, "where's
the beef?" Only after conducting extensive
statistical analyses
do the authors
reach their observations.
Their recommendations
are sound and
further research
should be enlightening.
Pharmaceuticals
in Water
Perchlorate
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TCE and
PCE
- Utah
air force base cleanup will take decades (Salt
Lake Deseret Morning News, December 10)
Commentary: Like
many other military Superfund sites, the numbers are staggering:
It has taken 30 years (19 since going on the Priority List)
and $210 million to get "plans in place," and
cleanup is projected to take another
30-65 years and $320 million (which,
if it really does take 65 years,
will be a lot more in 2072 dollars than is now
estimated!)
- Los
Cruces, NM, has lost 7 wells to Superfund
site, but city owns the responsible site,
so there's no one to sue (Las
Cruces Sun News, December 11)
Radium
Arsenic
Chromium
Private Wells
Fluoride: Naturally
Occurring
- Virginia
fluoride-rich groundwater is too much of a good thing (WAVY,
December 8)
Commentary: Some
smaller Virginia systems have 4 to 6
ppm of naturally occurring fluoride in
their wells, a level that is about 400-600
percent of the optimum levels for preventing
tooth decay. Expensive
solutions include drilling new wells
or water treatment plants.
Fluoridation
Desalination
Water Store
- How
would you like your water? Green with foam on top? New water
bar opens in Maryland (Washington
Post, December 6)
Commentary: Another
attempt to capitalize on celebrity to
create something that is marketable even
if it isn't focused on the commodities.
If their definition of "good"
water is any indication, other sources of
water need not worry about the competition. (Good:
85-percent pure. Water treated with a carbon
filter, essentially what you get when you
use a Brita® filter. Sells for 79 cents a
gallon.)
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