Phantasm iii lord of the

Phantasm iii lord of the dead

Attorney Taylor Goodall, who represents the board of directors for MUD 105, says the MUD also began mailing out more detailed warning notices in December of 200 The notices contained language in capital letters saying THIS IS NOT AN EMERGENCY and also telling residents you do not need to use an alternative water supply. I dont think theres a reason to panic, Goodall said. KHOU: Do you think the Average Joe knows theres radiation in the water? GOODALL: Well I cant speak for the Average Joe, but I know that we sent out mailers. Goodall says as soon as the MUD s board was notified of a legal violation, it also began to take steps to limit the flow of water from the most radioactive water well that the utility owns, which he says still remains in limited service during high-demand times. But residents like Felicia Byford and Tolbert, who both have young children, believe the MUD should have reduced the flow of that well long ago. State tests show the well has always tested above the federal health goal for radioactive alpha and has consistently come close to exceeding the legal limit for alpha, and in more recent years, tested in similar levels for radioactive radium, too. KHOU: Scientists say that this amount of radiation over a number of years, leads to an increased risk of cancer in your community. Does that concern you? GOODALL: Any issue of public health concerns me. But what I m saying is KHOU: You re saying there is no reason to panic. Referring to flier sent out to community residents. GOODALL: There isn t a reason to panic. I am firm in my belief that there isn t a reason to panic. Byford, however, disagrees. She s an embalmer by profession and says she sees every day what can happen to someone who comes down with cancer, and wants to lower her exposure to anything that might raise the risks to her own family. You come here and you drink this water, she said. Then you tell me how you feel in two years. But KHOU found out that MUD 105 is not alone. In fact, there are water providers all over Harris County that show alpha particles, according to state testing. Such is the case with Municipal Utility District 238, Municipal Utility District 23, the City of Katy and hundreds of other small water systems that depend mostly or entirely on groundwater. One of those local phantasm iii lord of the dead systems, known as the Suburban Mobile Home Park 2, violated federal legal limits for alpha radiation in 2003, 2004 and 200 Yet, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality allowed the drinking water to continue to flow to residents there for years after that, despite consistently testing with some of the highest readings for alpha-particle activity and uranium in Texas. For instance, in all four tests performed in the last two quarters of 2009 and the first two quarters of 2010, the Suburban Mobile Home Park 2 had so much radium in its water it surpassed the federal legal limit for combined radium by 200 percent. In the water system s last six tests for alpha, performed in 2009 and 2010, it more than doubled the legal limit for that type of radiation as well. The federal legal limit is set at 15 picocuries a measurement for radiation, and the water system measured between 33 and 43 picocuries in all six of its most recent tests. In addition, the Suburban Mobile Home Park 2 exceeded the federal legal limit for uranium in eight of its last 10 tests. The only two test results that did not exceed the legal limit for uranium include one where the result equaled the legal limit and another where it fell one microgram below the legal limit. All of these recent readings came after the TCEQ put the Suburban Mobile Home Park on a compliance agreement dated July 27, 200 The TCEQ, the agency charged with enforcing federal safe-water drinking regulations in Texas, has continued to allow the radioactive water to flow. When KHOU asked TCEQ why it had not taken any further enforcement action in all this time, TCEQ spokesperson Terry Clawson released a statement from the agency saying: The TCEQ placed the Suburban Mobile Home Park on a Compliance Agreement which began on July 23, 2007 and ended on July 23, 20 The TCEQ is awaiting monitoring results to evaluate the system s compliance performance status to determine further action. KHOU also obtained a database of every enforcement action TCEQ has taken over the last six years and noted no actions had been taken against Harris County MUD 10 However, seven days after TCEQ released its database of enforcement actions to KHOU, the agency then entered into a compliance agreement with MUD 105, phantasm iii lord of the dead has not fined the utility. We welcome your comments on this storys topic. Off-topic comments, personal attacks, and inappropriate language may be flagged and removed, and comment privileges blocked, per our Terms of Service. Thanks for keeping the comments space respectful. Please explain why you are flagging this comment 10 characters or more required. gusty said on December 30, 2010 at 4:04 PM What about the suppliers of bottled water? I have heard that bottled water sometimes has even more relaxed standards than tap According to Principles of Human Anatomy Seventh Edition, Page 683 by Gerard J. Tortora, One of the functions of the large intestine is the completion of. Could alpha particles in the water supply also used in agriculture in the food chain and all fruits, vegetables, and especially involved in red meat production, etc. be a significant cause of colon we be concerned about the water quality used in the production of food, such as meat, eggs, t agricultural processes have the power to concentrate environmental significant is the half-life and persistance of this danger over time? Will aging water help to reduce the threat, or will it take years for the radiation levels to decline? We need more answers! We need more questions. We need more reports, so please follow up. larryjo said on December 5, 2010 at 2:15 PM Solutions: For those who are financially challenged, arent we all these days? or live in a multi-family dwelling, there are solutions to the radiation and chloramine contaminant problems by means of correcting the water supplies to your home individually. Showering and bathing which is actually more toxic to the body than drinking water, because when soaking contaminants through the skin, we by-pass the livers poison control protection, can be corrected by the combined efforts of two recently created, state of the art pre-filters. For drinking purposes, tap water must be purified by means of a specialized pre-filter to a reverse osmosis system.