Texas: Alpha Radiation in Harris County Drinking Water
May 22nd, 2011Via: KHOU:
Newly-released e-mails from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality show the agency’s top commissioners directed staff to continue lowering radiation test results, in defiance of federal EPA rules.
The e-mails and documents, released under order from the Texas Attorney General to KHOU-TV, also show the agency was attempting to help water systems get out of formally violating federal limits for radiation in drinking water. Without a formal violation, the water systems did not have to inform their residents of the increased health risk.
“It’s a conspiracy at the TCEQ of the highest order,” said Tom Smith, of the government watchdog group Public Citizen. “The documents have indicted the management of this commission in a massive cover-up to convince people that our water is safe to drink when it’s not.”
Smith is talking about what happened to residents who live in communities served by utilities like Harris County Municipal Utility District 105. For years, tests performed by the Texas Department of State Health Services showed the utility provided water that exceeded the EPA legal limit for exposure to alpha radiation.
However, the TCEQ would consistently subtract off each test’s margin of error from those results, making the actual testing results appear lower than they actually were. In MUD 105’s case, the utility was able to avoid violations for nearly 20 years, thanks to the TCEQ subtractions.
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Alpha radiation is emitted from radionuclides such as uranium and radium. While health scientists have said it poses little danger if someone is externally exposed to it, the experts maintain that ingesting even the smallest amount of the particles can cause damage to DNA, and in rare cases, cause cancer.
based on a conversation with someone in the regulatory industry, i think its common for wastewater utilities to be able to lie in periodic reports about pollutants exceeding their mandated guidelines if theyre going to get the levels in line sooner or later… but 20 years of lies– thats impressive.
The source of radiation found in City of Houston H2O
Cities all over the US purchase hundreds of thousands of gallons of fresh – fluorosilicic acid (H2SiF6) – to fluoridate water.
Fluorosilicic acid is composed of tetrafluorosiliciate gas and other species of fluorine gases captured in pollution scrubbers and concentrated into a 23% solution during wet process phosphate fertilizer manufacture.
Generally, the acid is stored in outdoor cooling ponds before being shipped to US cities to artificially fluoridate drinking water.
In promoting the use of the pollution concentrate as a fluoridation agent, the ADA, Federal agencies and manufacturers failed to mention that it was radioactive. Whenever uranium is found in nature as a component of a mineral, a host of other radionuclides are always found in the mineral in various stages of decay. Uranium and all of its decay-rate products are found in phosphate rock, fluorosilicic acid and phosphate fertilizer.
During wet-process manufacturing, trace amounts of radium and uranium are captured in the pollution scrubber. This process was the subject of an article by H.F. Denzinger, H. J. König and G.E. Krüger in the fertilizer industry journal, Phosphorus & Potassium (No. 103, Sept./Oct. 1979) discussed how radionuclides are carried into the
fluorosilicic acid.
While the uranium and radium in fluorosilicic acid are known carcinogens, two decay products of uranium are even more carcinogenic: radon-222 and polonium-210.
During the acidulation process that creates phosphoric acid, radon gas contained in the phosphate pebble can be released in greater proportions than other decay-rate products (radionuclides) and carried over into the
fluorosilicic acid. Polonium may also be captured in greater quantities during scrubbing operations because, like radon, it can readily combine with fluoride.
In written communications to the author, EPA Office of Drinking Water official Joseph A. Cotruvo and Public Health Service fluoridation engineer Thomas Reeves have acknowledged the presence of radionuclides in fluorosilicic acid.
https://www.earthislandprojects.org/eijournal/fluoride/fluoride_phosphates.html
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City of Houston Earns Water Fluoridation Quality Award
“The Texas Department of State Health Services is pleased to announce that the City of Houston has been awarded a Water Fluoridation Quality Award from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). This award recognizes those communities in Texas that maintained a consistent level of optimally fluoridated water throughout
2009. This award was based on your submittal of the monthly fluoridation reports to the Texas Fluoridation Project.”
http://www.publicworks.houstontx.gov/index.html
=== Side note ===
I worked for CoH PWE in 2007. (I ‘escaped’ as fast as possible, btw)
While I was at a meeting on the 25th floor of 611 Walker, downtown Houston, Waynette Chan. PWE Chief of Staff, proudly told our group the largest customer of CoH water is the Budweiser plant on the east side of town.
Anheuser-Busch:?
775 Gellhorn Drive
Houston, TX 77029-1496
Bud, BudLight, Select, BL Select 55, etc. Brewed in Houston has those ‘special ingredients’.
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WHY WOULD THEY INTENTIONALLY POISON US?!?!?
Find out for yourself …
GOOGLE ‘fluoride in concentration camp water’
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The intential addition of toxic fluoride in personal products and chemicals used daily in the USA is also very profound. Child attention deficit disorder, hyper activity and IQ reduction are rampant. Any researcher, doctor or scientist that brings the neurotoxicity issues to the public or alerts the media; his or her
careers are usually destroyed and reputations smeared.