Re: Uranium in Water

[TMARKS5333@aol.com]

All of the involved childrens teeth are in poor condition. The point is that 
the younger children who have lived at this house their whole life are the 
worst. It seems to me that this would make since. Also the older children 
which attend school all day do not consume as much of the contaminated water 
as the younger ones who stay home all day. There is also fluoride naturally 
occurring in the water at therapeutic levels. These children also maintain 6 
month check -- ups with fluoride treatments given at these check -- ups. 

This might also explain why the youngest child has hair levels the highest of 
the five and as the age increases, their hair level decreases. 

On the third testing the uranium levels were:

U238    260.625 +/- 14.177  MDA 3.13E-02
U235    12.717   +/-  1.036   MDA 2.23E-02
U234    506.373 +/-  27.116  MDA 4.18E-02
UNAT   779.568 +/-  41.497  MDA 4.83E-02

The radium levels were:

Radium 226  EPA Method 903   11.49  pCi/L  +/- 1.31   MDA 0.59
Radium 228  EPA Method 904    3.44   pCi/L  +/- 0.71   MDA 1.09

The radon water levels were also high in the water sampled, as was the 
arsenic level.


Tammy Marks
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