Officials in Pensacola resisted effort to clean radioactive water

[salin]

Officials in Pensacola resisted effort to clean radioactive water

Sun-Sentinel
Posted September 8 2003, 3:09 PM EDT

PENSACOLA -- Two former utility administrators resisted efforts to remove high levels of radium from drinking water while downplaying its links to bone and nasal cancer and keeping the public in the dark for more than four years, a newspaper reports.

About 10,000 people served by the Escambia County Utilities Authority in Pensacola and Gulf Breeze drank radioactive water more than twice the federal standard while administrators stalled removal efforts, the Pensacola News Journal disclosed in Monday editions.

The newspaper reviewed more than 50,000 pages of public documents showing that unsafe levels of radium 226 and 228 had been detected in 1996 but not removed until 2000.

That's when the state Department of Environmental Protection fined the utility for violating the federal standard and failing to notify the public. Even then, utility officials claimed customers faced no significant risk.


more: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-radioactivewater0908,0,2618407.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines


mmmmmmmmm........ water........ :(

[Cha]

1. Fire the govenor!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. Enron loves contaminated water PRIVATIZE PRIVATIZE PRIVATIZE

One wonders how it dropped from 150 million per well to $515,000

[Zhade]

3. FUCK! My parents live in Pensacola!

I'm going to make these bastards drink that water. Assholes.

[acmavm]

4. Can't this be construed as attempted murder? Or at the very least

absolute disregard for human life? Which is manslaughter, isn't it? Why isn't someone going to prison for this? Is this, at the very least, endangering the lives of innocent people?

[madfloridian]

5. More bad doings there, same guy, Van Dever! Outrage!

http://www.pbrla.com/news_031802c.html

From 2002.
A couple of the stories aren't there anymore, but some links are still workable.

Lovely fellow.

[monobrau]

6. My lovely hometown

Where the EPA is a communist plot. The adults get the contaminated water they deserve, but god damn them for poisining children.

[Don_G]

7. Shit!

I have a friend who works in Pensacola with 2 lovely daughters and a grandson who just turned two....

I'm just wondering if the radioactive contaminants were from an old fertiziler plant there or possibly from the square miles of the Pensacola Naval Air Station?