Re: Water Monitoring

[Tim <tstead@ntirs.org>]

How about using simple filters.  Not only will you get

most, if not all all of the radioactive particles out

(both natural and manmade) but you'll also get the

twigs, stones, dirt, bird poop, and other junk.



Not to be sarcastic, but couldn't the US government

supply every home in America with simple water filters

on their house for LESS money that it will cost to

"protect" the water supply system to just one or two

major cities?



On a more realistic note, it will take a tremendous

amount of radioactive material to effectively

contaminate a water supply since most of the material

dumped will settle to the bottom as silt and never get

into the actual drinking water system.  I think people

backing up to the reservoir with dump trucks full of

radioactive material would be noticed somehow.



If someone were to dump a few kilograms of plutonium

into a municipal water supply - you might see a couple

excess cancers over the next 50 years.



For these reasons, I really don't think that

contaminating a water supply with radioactive

materials is a very credible threat.  But, hey, if the

taxpayers want to spend money on rad monitors on the

water supply then who am I to tell them how to spend

their money?



Regards,

Tim Steadham, P.E.





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