what's in your well water? - Uranium is in Nevada wells

[donsu]

http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAUUFR7RRD.html

Extremely High Uranium Levels Found in Groundwater at Nevada Mine

New tests show extremely high levels of uranium in groundwater beneath an abandoned copper mine in northern Nevada, and federal regulators say more tests are needed to determine if nearby wells could be contaminated.
The Atlantic Richfield Co. has agreed to provide bottled water to at least 10 households with wells near the mine even though most private wells and all of the municipal wells met U.S. drinking water standards in the latest round of tests. The company is responsible for cleaning up the 3,500-acre former Anaconda mine site that has been mined since 1953.

Tests conducted in December found concentrations of uranium in a monitoring well at the mine at more than 200 times the Environmental Protection Agency's standard for public drinking water. Uranium is considered a carcinogen.

Armed with the new data, the EPA is pushing the state to broaden its investigation into how far the pollution may have moved off the site bordering the small, rural community of Yerington.

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what does it cost to have your well water checked for uranium? is it a price the average person can pay? must they depend on Nev. gov. officials to tell the truth?

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. Gee - it took a few decades, but I guess all that bomb testing has

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taken it's toll.. .

and it will take many MORE decades for all those ground pollutants to filter through to the water tables

"underground testing - safe" - ?? - guessnot, eh? :shrug:

It may be CENTURIES before we find out how much damage is done with all these pollutants from "testing" shit to destroy OTHER countries . .

Nuke plants leaking into the Colorado river, you name it, generations down the road are going to PAY, in lives I'm afraid.

Even up here in Canukville, they are finding out that old ashphalt roads, excessive fertilizing, and even the salt we put on our roads in the winter are polluting our "groundwater"

- water that "used" to be the safest -

not any more -

(sigh)