Re: uranium in urine analysis

["Tony Harrison" <laharris@SMTPGATE.DPHE.STATE.CO.US>]

Franz,



The key here is "private wells".  I don't know about Europe, but in the US we try to refrain from regulating people's private property & affairs.  Sometimes this means that we have the right to poison ourselves, as well as sleep under bridges (to paraphrase someone or other.)



Tony Harrison, MSPH, RSO

Laboratory and Radiation Services Division

Colorado Dept. of Public Health & Environment

tony.harrison@state.co.us 





>>> "Franz Schoenhofer" <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT> 03/26/01 01:50PM >>>



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Von: Charp, Paul <pac4@cdc.gov>

An: Radsafe (E-mail) <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>

Datum: Montag, 26. März 2001 22:25

Betreff: uranium in urine analysis





>Parts of the Greenville, South Carolina area have private wells with

>elevated levels of uranium.  One well is reportedly at 9000 + micrograms

per

>liter.  Because of the potential impacts on public health, we are

>investigating the possibility of performing an exposure investigation

>coupled with kidney function tests.





Did I misunderstand or miss something? Wasn't EPA proposing something like

10 or 20 micrograms uranium per liter as a limit in drinking water? Are

those people to be used as guinea pigs instead of cutting off their water

supply at once and supplying them with clean water or installing devices for

removal of uranium?



Franz







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