Here is an excellent report on the EWG refusal to even share their data with the city of Tallahassee:
"Jamie Shakar, the citys manager for water quality, said the city sent an e-mail requesting to review the EWGs laboratory reports. On Wednesday evening, Shakar said the EWG responded, denying the request.
I dont understand why they would put the information out there and not share the information with us so that we can share some dialogue about it, he added. We would like to do a scientific review.
The EWG, a Washington D.C.-based research and advocacy group, collected one sample of Tallahassees drinking water, Shakar said and referred to that as tragic. EWG press associate Leeann Brown said the group just wanted to get a snapshot with the samples that were collected from numerous cities in the spring. We only took one sample to get a snapshot to see if there were grounds for further investigation, she said. We werent trying to do a thorough investigation.
Shakar said the city has collected 50 samples this year testing for total chromium in the water something the city is only required to do every three years. Only 1.0 parts per billion were found. The United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection requirement is to be under 100 ppb, he added."
http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20101223/BREAKINGNEWS/101223003/Update--City-responds-to-contaminated-water-allegations
Oh, I forgot, Congress inhabits the area
The Environmental Working Group are the same people who gave us Alar and other classics.
Note from the article that they appear to be working hand-in-glove with Lisa Jackson’s EPA.
Stage II will be a celebrity TV ad about the second coming of Chromium 6. Maybe Erin Brokovich herself will weigh in, but only if there are big bucks in it for her personally, as when she sued the Beverly Hills school system (!) for having oil derricks on their property.
Did she ever actually get around to getting a law degree, I wonder?
Is Kool-Aid a carcinogen?
So this is bipartisan? I always wondered what that meant.
I can see no alternative to shutting down Washington DC, and all activities contained therein, until the problem has been completely and entirely fixed. Not until the concentration is below 1 part per trillion can people resume work, even if it take years, or decades, or centuries.
1 ppb!!!!!
I’ve operated a public water system for 30 years. This is pure bull cr@p!
Here’s my post from a similar thread a few days ago, about California chrome;
Last year, California took the first step in limiting the amount of hexavalent chromium in drinking water by proposing a public health goal for safe levels of 0.06 parts per billion. If California does set a limit, it would be the first in the nation.
Lets see. Do I have this right?
Thats 6 one hundredths of 1 part per billion. Is this like the pharma in the water deal? Ya know,,, where you would have to drink 3 olympic-sized swimming pools full of water per day to get a standard daily dose?
In a written statement, the groups senior director, Ann Mason, said that even the most sophisticated analytical methods used by EPA are not able to detect the extremely low levels that California wants to establish.
So they cant even test for that miniscule amount?
Ken Cook, president of the Environmental Working Group, said that water utilities across the country are resistant to the regulation.
Well, I can understand that. It may be possible to remove 99,999,999 parts per billion, but that one last part per billion? The cost could be amazing!
An EPA official once told me, back in 82, that the EPA would have no problem with the bill for water being $1,500 per year for an average family of four. Back in 82. Wonder what they think is acceptable now?
Oh well! Im off to the water plant Ive operated for 30 years. Gotta do my daily routine, and add some Chromium to the water.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. - H. L. Mencken on climate change. See also, Feynmann, Richard on “Cargo Cult Science”.
Gonna hafta relocate ever one in DC to where ever they chooses to lif. An gi’ em reparations foe the fact that them carci-whatever thangs is goin kill em moe sooner than gittin shot daid in DC.
Only goin cost 3.5 trillion dollah oh so. President obama say iss OK to pay dat beel rat now. Some kinda presdential decree.
I goin tellum to move my fambly (aw twelve of us) to Hawaii an git me some nice clean warter to drank.
LET THEM DRINK BOTTLED WATER, which our esteamed senators already do between hard liquor drinks...
I have to ask the stupid questions here...
Why can’t we sue the EWG?
For what? Failure to follow Environmental Sample Handling and Protocols.
If they are not willing to share their samples, data, and sampling techniques used ...IT IS JUNK SCIENCE!
Wow... there really IS something in the water in DC.
But all the flouride in our water, toothpaste, and who knows what else is perfectly OK ???
Mark Kirk on Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/SenatorKirk?v=wall
Hallucinogen is more like it,
“Erin Brockovich” Town Shows No Cancer Cluster
http://reason.com/blog/2010/12/13/erin-brockovich-town-shows-no
I’ve been saying for years that the dinking water inside the beltway causes people to lose their comon sense, intelligence and ethics. How else could we have so many
&*%$ politicians?
They got the food now they’re after the water.