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Re: Radionuclides in Groundwater



Many of you may recall last September the same issue of a home in Connecticut 
having the same levels as those seen here.

This is my house, and the life of my five children that ARE effected. 

If you want to talk about the safety of uranium, natural or otherwise, and  
the governments responsibility to the health of the general populus ... you 
can talk until you're blue in the face.  My family drank this water for 5 
years and are seeing health effects. We make routine trips into the city for 
kidney analysis. My kids teeth abscess and the bone disintegrates; thus 
resulting in 3 children having 9 teeth pulled! All the kids have low bone 
mass, etc.

I can't believe that any parents out there would want to knowingly subject 
themselves or their children to what we are going through. Not to mention 
what the future may hold. Nobody really knows how kids metabolize uranium -- 
two of mine have had it since birth, one inutero. How can any tell me that 
this is safe for them?!? Maybe this would explain bone mass 4-5 deviations 
below normal and teeth that are as soft as chalk....and for those nay sayers 
who will blame it on too much or too little fluoride, try again.

As for those who claim the water with high uranium/radium usually contains so 
many other minerals that the water color and taste would be prohibitive to 
wanting to drink the water, I would gladly send you a sample of my water and 
you can look at it and taste it. I dare you to drink it on a daily basis and 
give it to your kids.

If it only took the government warning me that this may be here (according 
the maps), or better yet, the mandatory testing for it, I wouldn't be where I 
am today -- fearing for the future of my children. Who can put a price on 
life???????

T. Marks
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