Radium in water supplies

[goldinem@songs.sce.com]

     I'm sure there will be some opinions on this recently found major 
     hazard.  I certainly have mine.   
     Eric Goldin   <goldinem@songs.sce.com>
     
     Unsafe Levels of Radium Taint Water
     From Times Wire Reports
     
     Federal scientists have found unsafe levels of cancer-causing 
     radium in the major source for drinking water for hundreds of 
     thousands of people in southern New Jersey, the Philadelphia 
     Inquirer has reported. An eight-year study by the U.S.    
     Geological survey found 33% of the private wells tested between 
     1989 and 1996 in six southern New Jersey counties had unsafe 
     levels of radium. In the more heavily developed areas of those 
     counties, the unhealthy levels were found in 65% of the water 
     supplies tested. The radium-tainted water is in the 
     Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer, which supplies water to about 200,000 
     private wells used by an estimated 500,000 people, the paper 
     said.
     
     Copyright 1998 Los Angeles Times. All Rights Reserved


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