Christie doesn't mind rocket fuel being in N.J. drinking water

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http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=1310


CHRISTIE DEEP-SIXES NEW JERSEY PERCHLORATE STANDARD — “Red Tape” Review Runs Out Clock on Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water Limit


A multi-year effort to stem the spread of perchlorate, a chemical found in rocket fuel, in New Jersey drinking water has been blocked by order of Governor Chris Christie, according to documents posted today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). As a result, the chemical found in about one-sixth of public water systems will remain unregulated for the foreseeable future despite the strong recommendation of state scientists that a strict standard is needed.

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“Unless Gov. Christie and DEP enacts the perchlorate standard during this one day window, then New Jersey drinking water supplies will continue to expose thousands of unknowing residents to unsafe levels of this toxic chemical associated with rocket fuel and military ordinance,” stated New Jersey PEER Director Bill Wolfe, a former DEP analyst, noting that starting the perchlorate regulation process all over again would take at least a year but probably much longer. “This standard has been ready since last summer and it is business that Gov. Corzine should have taken care of before he left.”

Heavily impacted states such as California and Massachusetts have enacted their own perchlorate standards since national standards by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have been stymied for years by opposition from the Pentagon. At her Senate confirmation hearing in early 2009, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson pledged she would address perchlorate but the EPA process remains in limbo.

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This upcoming March 10th, the Christie administration has scheduled a public “stakeholders” meeting as part of its moratorium review on pending perchlorate and other Safe Drinking Water Act rules.
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I wonder what kind of water Christie drinks.

somebody must know.

how much money has the pentagon barons spent trying to get everyone to ignore and forget that rocket fuel is in their water?

may the pentagon crumble

[DefenseLawyer]

1. Rocket fuel will make us all go FAST!

Zoooooom! Zooooom! And it's got electrolytes. It's what plants crave.

[ensho]

2. go faster to the doctors and death

nt

[dipsydoodle]

3. From 2003

Drinking water for more than 20 million Americans is contaminated with a toxic legacy of the Cold War: A chemical that interferes with normal thyroid function, may cause cancer and persists indefinitely in the environment, but is currently unregulated by state or federal authorities.

Perchlorate, the explosive main ingredient of rocket and missile fuel, contaminates drinking water supplies, groundwater or soil in hundreds of locations in at least 43 states, according to Environmental Working Group’s updated analysis of government data. EWG’s analysis of the latest scientific studies, which show harmful health effects from minute doses, argues that a national standard for perchlorate in drinking water should be no higher than one-tenth the level the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency currrently recommends as safe.

http://www.ewg.org/reports/rocketwater

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Only you American proles have to drink this crap." - Gov. Republicon

"We Republicon 'elites' drink only imported Perrier. Smirk."

- Gov. Republicon Christie

[wilt the stilt]

5. look at him

It doesn't appear that putting crap in his body is a high priority.

[Xithras]

6. Perchlorate isn't just "rocket fuel"

Ever shot off a firework? You've added perchlorate to the environment. Ever light a road flare? You've added perchlorate to the environment. Ever been in an accident and had your airbag go off? You've added perchlorate to the environment. Ever play with model rockets? You've added perchlorate to the environment. Do you have a chlorine generator on your swimming pool? You're adding perchlorate to the environment.

The biggest source of perchlorate pollution seems to be old military bases and factories that made propellants for weapons, but perchlorate is in wide use today and noncommercial activities can be a major perchlorate contributor in some areas.

Sadly, another huge contributor that was only recently recognized are Fourth of July celebrations that fire their mortars over lakes. It's a common practice to reduce fire risk, but those mortars contain significant amounts of perchlorate and nearly all of it falls into the water below. In one study, they found that the perchlorate levels in a lake increased a thousandfold (no exaggeration) after a major fireworks display, and remained high for nearly three months afterward. That lake was the drinking water supply for the town that launched the fireworks.

Here in Central California, most of the foothill counties have major fireworks celebrations over the reservoirs because the areas are too dry to launch them over the ground. The water in those reservoirs waters the farms, that grow the food, that we export around the world. Guess what they're finding in our groundwater and soil now...

[ensho]

7. good grief - americans can be dangerously stupid

nt

[Bitwit1234]

8. We could wait til Christie breaks wind and light it...maybe HE"LL

make it as far as the moon.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Perchlorate reduces thyroid in the body, among other effects.

I would sure be looking at water filters and other ways of avoiding that stuff in my water.

Here, the taste of chlorine is so strong we have to use filters.
And ironically our city water comes from deep wells, but then they contaminate it with
chlorine.