While President Obama, Senate Committees,Secretary of the Interior Salazar, and Republican Drill Baby Drill advocates continue to point fingers and play the blame game those who live along the Gulf Coast will be drinking toxic, carcinogenic water poisoned by enormous the oil leak. As the oil saturates wet lands along the coast, not only will sea life perish and sicken but so will human lives gradually be poisoned. The wetlands are filters that ordinarily helps purify water that enters ground water aquifers that become drinking water sources. The aquifers that are fed by ground water drainage through coastal wetlands will become more toxic daily as organic chemicals contained in crude oil continually enter the aquifers. The carcinogenic contaminants will inevitably pollute drinking water in Gulf communities that depend upon ground water. Municipal water treatments cannot remove all of the toxins and slowly they will accumulate in humans causing irreparable harm if individual actions are not taken. Everyone using municipal or well water must purify the water they drink and use for cooking, etc. as soon as possible. Consult your local companies that specialize in home water purification systems and get one for your home now. Also purchase a TDS (total dissolved solids) monitor to get a measure of purification effectiveness.
Act now to help protect your health and your loved ones. Do not rely on either local or federal government assurances that all is well. They will be misleading you if that is what they tell you. Protect yourself while the blame game continues.
Friday, May 14, 2010
Saturday, April 10, 2010
Drinking Water--Here Today, Gone Tomorrow--Unless We Take Action Now
What is shared by all human life and for that matter all life? The only answer is WATER. We humans consume about 5 to 8 gallons a day if it is available. We drink what is available where we live or what we buy bottled (usually in plastic and usually municipal water that may or may not be purified additionally and then shipped from distant locations , stored, and gradually contaminated with harmful chemicals that continue to leach out of the plastic containers into the water that we eventually drink. If we are able to use municipal water for which we pay a regular monthly fee we also drink contaminated water that contain both regulated and unregulated toxins at usually very small concentrations. Each sip of water we take contains a veritable cocktail of micro contaminants that can slowly accumulate in all of our body organs and individually or synergistically kill life sustaining cells or cause cancerous mutations and disease, disability, and death. If you doubt these facts read many sources of information that I have discussed in previous blogs.
You can start with the Water Quality Report that your water utility department issues annually. Don' stop there because it will not contain much really useful information. Follow up with resources from the EPA, National Institute of Health, Environmental Working Group, and many books dating from Rachael Carson's, "Silent Spring" in published in 1962 to my book, "A Drinker's Guide to Pure Water" published in 2006, and other more recent reports available from the Sierra Club and others. After studying these sources you should begin to understand the devil of a problem that you unconsciously ignore as you consume more toxic and carcinogenic chemicals with every drink of water you imbibe or ingest.
The high incidence of cancer raises the obvious:"Why is cancer so prevalent?" Why are medical problems that harm vital organs so common? Why are newborn infants, who have obtained all the life support for 9 months from their mothers body, often born with cancer, various diseases, and physical defects? Read and study the overwhelming evidence that implicates and sometimes pinpoints manmade chemicals as the direct cause. Read independent Medical Reports from Medical Colleges and Institutions, reports from the Center for Disease Control, and National Institute of Health as well as reports from diverse environmental groups involved in protecting the vital fresh water supplies on Earth from more accumulative contamination. Educate yourself. Educate others. Your life may very well depend upon what you and others learn.
We, human beings, often ignore or dismiss factors that determine our physical well being if we cannot experience an immediate cause and effect between that factor and our health or sickness. Our consumption of water and the effects of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals are shrouded in that category of unrecognizable influences that are not detected by our normal sensory means. We ordinarily can't see any micro contaminants in the water we consume. We can't feel or hear them. We generally cannot taste them. We, therefore, are unaware of sensory undetectable things. We also often fail to understand the connection between the contaminated water we all drink and ingest with our foods, and the potential diseases that incubate over varying durations of time in our bodies without any symptoms, often until it is too late to treat or cure. We almost never know what or why the particular disease struck. Why me? Why you? For the same reasons millions of others are harmed by chemicals that were never intended by nature to be in our bodies. These unwanted and harmful chemicals are like ticking time bombs ready to explode without prior notification. They are deadly and the fuse can ignite at any time.
Our ignorance is understandable but not excusable. Become informed and then take action to improve the quality and safety of the water we and everyone needs, and take action to prevent future contamination of our limited fresh water supplies. Myriad diseases and often treatable but incurable cancers are caused by contaminants in the water that all of us consume. Billions of dollars of unnecessary medical costs are incurred annually because of contaminated water that poses as drinkable because our local water municipality says that they adhere to Federal standards. Who can vouch for the adequacy of the very limited Federal standards when barely 100 chemicals are regulated out of the many tens of thousands of man made (as many a thirty thousand or more in active use today) chemicals that contaminate most fresh water sources on Earth.
Water treatment technology in use today is incapable of completely removing any of the many tens of thousands of micro constituents that poison fresh water sources everywhere. Most of the inhabitants of Earth are blindly consuming water that has have been contaminated with deadly manmade chemicals that were concocted and made and used mainly over the last eighty years. The petro-chemical industries, agricultural pesticide and herbicides companies, specialty chemical producers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, power generating industry, electronic and computer industry, and many other types of manufacturers and processing operations continuously discharge and distribute products that are made and used worldwide and that are steadily increasing the concentration of toxins and carcinogens in Earth's fresh water sources and oceans.
Since detoxification processes cannot remove the thousands of contaminants that currently are in Earth's water, the rate at which ongoing contamination is occurring makes the problem greater and more dangerous day by day. We are poisoning ourselves and the Earth with toxins and carcinogens that have already had deadly consequences, and the situation worsens and will do so until our planet becomes unable to support life as we know it. To prevent this eventually calamity the production and use of deadly man made chemicals must be substantially curtailed and cease in the relatively near term.
This critical problem is currently ignored by most of the world's leaders and populace, while instead being preoccupied with political and economic issues that are meaningless by comparison. The industrialized countries of the world are responsible for almost all (excluding natural substance that are toxic) poisons and carcinogens that contaminate water. The economically poorer countries of the world, that often already suffer from water shortages and natural contamination, are further harmed by the economically advantaged countries that produce or control production (wherever it occurs) of virtually all man made toxic chemicals that are commonly used for seemingly mundane purposes without our awareness of their deadly potential. While headline grabbing issues divert our attention from major environmental issues that confront our planet,including the well debated issue of climate change that ignorant leaders and others often dismiss as inconsequential or not factual, we engage in endless political rhetoric, war making, and relatively insignificant issues, while life determinant issues are often ignored by leaders and by the majority of people who are supposedly educated, and often entirely ignored by those who are not educated. Many of us are not informed and/or do not want to be informed about vital issues that will determine the viability of life on our planet. We are too easily distracted by inconsequential matters and and entertainment that saturates the media while ignoring really vital issues that require thought and study.
Each of us has the responsibility to protect the fresh water sources that we all depend upon. Get informed about the reality of how we are making our planet's water deadly and the threat to all life that is inevitable if action is not taken soon. Force the political and government leaders to give vital environmental issues the highest priority. Think beyond your locality and state boarders and beyond national boundaries. Think globally about the Earth's future. Humans are the only ones who can take that necessary action to protect all life on Earth now and into the future. Do not pass up this once in a lifetime chance to do something for the benefit of all living things including ourselves and future generations who depend upon what we do, or what we do not do, now. Drinking water is here today and will be gone tomorrow unless we take action now.
You can start with the Water Quality Report that your water utility department issues annually. Don' stop there because it will not contain much really useful information. Follow up with resources from the EPA, National Institute of Health, Environmental Working Group, and many books dating from Rachael Carson's, "Silent Spring" in published in 1962 to my book, "A Drinker's Guide to Pure Water" published in 2006, and other more recent reports available from the Sierra Club and others. After studying these sources you should begin to understand the devil of a problem that you unconsciously ignore as you consume more toxic and carcinogenic chemicals with every drink of water you imbibe or ingest.
The high incidence of cancer raises the obvious:"Why is cancer so prevalent?" Why are medical problems that harm vital organs so common? Why are newborn infants, who have obtained all the life support for 9 months from their mothers body, often born with cancer, various diseases, and physical defects? Read and study the overwhelming evidence that implicates and sometimes pinpoints manmade chemicals as the direct cause. Read independent Medical Reports from Medical Colleges and Institutions, reports from the Center for Disease Control, and National Institute of Health as well as reports from diverse environmental groups involved in protecting the vital fresh water supplies on Earth from more accumulative contamination. Educate yourself. Educate others. Your life may very well depend upon what you and others learn.
We, human beings, often ignore or dismiss factors that determine our physical well being if we cannot experience an immediate cause and effect between that factor and our health or sickness. Our consumption of water and the effects of toxic and carcinogenic chemicals are shrouded in that category of unrecognizable influences that are not detected by our normal sensory means. We ordinarily can't see any micro contaminants in the water we consume. We can't feel or hear them. We generally cannot taste them. We, therefore, are unaware of sensory undetectable things. We also often fail to understand the connection between the contaminated water we all drink and ingest with our foods, and the potential diseases that incubate over varying durations of time in our bodies without any symptoms, often until it is too late to treat or cure. We almost never know what or why the particular disease struck. Why me? Why you? For the same reasons millions of others are harmed by chemicals that were never intended by nature to be in our bodies. These unwanted and harmful chemicals are like ticking time bombs ready to explode without prior notification. They are deadly and the fuse can ignite at any time.
Our ignorance is understandable but not excusable. Become informed and then take action to improve the quality and safety of the water we and everyone needs, and take action to prevent future contamination of our limited fresh water supplies. Myriad diseases and often treatable but incurable cancers are caused by contaminants in the water that all of us consume. Billions of dollars of unnecessary medical costs are incurred annually because of contaminated water that poses as drinkable because our local water municipality says that they adhere to Federal standards. Who can vouch for the adequacy of the very limited Federal standards when barely 100 chemicals are regulated out of the many tens of thousands of man made (as many a thirty thousand or more in active use today) chemicals that contaminate most fresh water sources on Earth.
Water treatment technology in use today is incapable of completely removing any of the many tens of thousands of micro constituents that poison fresh water sources everywhere. Most of the inhabitants of Earth are blindly consuming water that has have been contaminated with deadly manmade chemicals that were concocted and made and used mainly over the last eighty years. The petro-chemical industries, agricultural pesticide and herbicides companies, specialty chemical producers, pharmaceutical manufacturers, power generating industry, electronic and computer industry, and many other types of manufacturers and processing operations continuously discharge and distribute products that are made and used worldwide and that are steadily increasing the concentration of toxins and carcinogens in Earth's fresh water sources and oceans.
Since detoxification processes cannot remove the thousands of contaminants that currently are in Earth's water, the rate at which ongoing contamination is occurring makes the problem greater and more dangerous day by day. We are poisoning ourselves and the Earth with toxins and carcinogens that have already had deadly consequences, and the situation worsens and will do so until our planet becomes unable to support life as we know it. To prevent this eventually calamity the production and use of deadly man made chemicals must be substantially curtailed and cease in the relatively near term.
This critical problem is currently ignored by most of the world's leaders and populace, while instead being preoccupied with political and economic issues that are meaningless by comparison. The industrialized countries of the world are responsible for almost all (excluding natural substance that are toxic) poisons and carcinogens that contaminate water. The economically poorer countries of the world, that often already suffer from water shortages and natural contamination, are further harmed by the economically advantaged countries that produce or control production (wherever it occurs) of virtually all man made toxic chemicals that are commonly used for seemingly mundane purposes without our awareness of their deadly potential. While headline grabbing issues divert our attention from major environmental issues that confront our planet,including the well debated issue of climate change that ignorant leaders and others often dismiss as inconsequential or not factual, we engage in endless political rhetoric, war making, and relatively insignificant issues, while life determinant issues are often ignored by leaders and by the majority of people who are supposedly educated, and often entirely ignored by those who are not educated. Many of us are not informed and/or do not want to be informed about vital issues that will determine the viability of life on our planet. We are too easily distracted by inconsequential matters and and entertainment that saturates the media while ignoring really vital issues that require thought and study.
Each of us has the responsibility to protect the fresh water sources that we all depend upon. Get informed about the reality of how we are making our planet's water deadly and the threat to all life that is inevitable if action is not taken soon. Force the political and government leaders to give vital environmental issues the highest priority. Think beyond your locality and state boarders and beyond national boundaries. Think globally about the Earth's future. Humans are the only ones who can take that necessary action to protect all life on Earth now and into the future. Do not pass up this once in a lifetime chance to do something for the benefit of all living things including ourselves and future generations who depend upon what we do, or what we do not do, now. Drinking water is here today and will be gone tomorrow unless we take action now.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
What's Not Seen Can Cause Death---Invisible Toxins in Water
We are conditioned to believe that all we need do is look, hear, and speak to determine reality. This is largely bunk. We hear endless charades of word from so-called experts about everything from what to not eat to who to vote foe and why. We are fed endless propaganda by purveyors who want us to buy whatever they sell as we are assured that their product are superior to every other similar product. We are often told by government agencies that they have the peoples interest at heart and whatever needs fixing will be fixed. We often swallow this continuous line of assurances as if it is the true gospel.
Swallow it indeed. Every drop of water we swallow contains contaminants that can cause illness and even death that we swallow nonetheless because we assume that what we can't see cant hurt us. Virtually all the water; well sources, municipal water system sources, lakes, reservoirs, rivers and oceans world wide have become contaminated during the last 100 years from man made chemicals that never were found in nature. Many of these thousands of chemical substances cause cancer, and incurable diseases that lead to premature death including infants. Infants absorb toxic chemical that are in their mothers blood during the period of gestation.
The invisible toxic chemicals are often odorless in water and no decontamination process exists that can remove all traces. Household water from municipal water plants is chlorinated to eliminate bacterium but the purification processes do not remove most toxic man made chemicals. The traces that remain accumulate in our body organs over time and can nucleate cancerous cells and other abnormalities without our awareness.
In many parts of the world all drinking water is derived from wells that depend upon ground water aquifers sources. The chemical contamination of these ground waters depends upon what is natural in the sources and what is charged into the ground water from ground and above ground sources. Rain can carry pollution from distant locations and deposit toxic chemicals everywhere. Leaking underground fuel storage tanks can and does poison well water and municipal water sources causing unknown numbers of illnesses and deaths. Most of us live in areas where rain run-off deposits toxins on roadways into the ground water and contaminates all drinking water using the particular aquifers that are supplied by the contaminated run-off. We are subjected to continuous sources of contaminate water wherever we live and in some areas the contamination is very deadly dependent upon the particular chemicals that are present.
Governmental water quality regulations do not provide the necessary protection and many states have their own weak or non-existent regulation governing ground water sources. Underground fuel tanks inevitably leak and discharge their generally toxic contents (petrochemicals containing a large number of carcinogenic and poisonous chemicals) into ground water. In the USA alone their are more than 600,000 underground fuel tanks and about 50% are estimated to be leaking into ground water. No tank material is impervious to either corrosion or rupture and eventually every underground tank will leak their potentially toxic contents into the ground and into our mouths.
What is not seen can cause your sickness and even death. Open your minds and demand facts and action from your state and federal governments to disclose truthful information and facts about the contaminant found in ground water and municipal system sources. DO NOT rely on the WATER QUALITY REPORTS that are usually cited and printed as part of the propaganda charade. Dig deeper and never take anyones word for real facts. You do not have to be a chemist or toxicologist to understand the facts. Just your brains, and, your refusal to accept bunk. Keep your eyes wide shut and your brain wide open.
Swallow it indeed. Every drop of water we swallow contains contaminants that can cause illness and even death that we swallow nonetheless because we assume that what we can't see cant hurt us. Virtually all the water; well sources, municipal water system sources, lakes, reservoirs, rivers and oceans world wide have become contaminated during the last 100 years from man made chemicals that never were found in nature. Many of these thousands of chemical substances cause cancer, and incurable diseases that lead to premature death including infants. Infants absorb toxic chemical that are in their mothers blood during the period of gestation.
The invisible toxic chemicals are often odorless in water and no decontamination process exists that can remove all traces. Household water from municipal water plants is chlorinated to eliminate bacterium but the purification processes do not remove most toxic man made chemicals. The traces that remain accumulate in our body organs over time and can nucleate cancerous cells and other abnormalities without our awareness.
In many parts of the world all drinking water is derived from wells that depend upon ground water aquifers sources. The chemical contamination of these ground waters depends upon what is natural in the sources and what is charged into the ground water from ground and above ground sources. Rain can carry pollution from distant locations and deposit toxic chemicals everywhere. Leaking underground fuel storage tanks can and does poison well water and municipal water sources causing unknown numbers of illnesses and deaths. Most of us live in areas where rain run-off deposits toxins on roadways into the ground water and contaminates all drinking water using the particular aquifers that are supplied by the contaminated run-off. We are subjected to continuous sources of contaminate water wherever we live and in some areas the contamination is very deadly dependent upon the particular chemicals that are present.
Governmental water quality regulations do not provide the necessary protection and many states have their own weak or non-existent regulation governing ground water sources. Underground fuel tanks inevitably leak and discharge their generally toxic contents (petrochemicals containing a large number of carcinogenic and poisonous chemicals) into ground water. In the USA alone their are more than 600,000 underground fuel tanks and about 50% are estimated to be leaking into ground water. No tank material is impervious to either corrosion or rupture and eventually every underground tank will leak their potentially toxic contents into the ground and into our mouths.
What is not seen can cause your sickness and even death. Open your minds and demand facts and action from your state and federal governments to disclose truthful information and facts about the contaminant found in ground water and municipal system sources. DO NOT rely on the WATER QUALITY REPORTS that are usually cited and printed as part of the propaganda charade. Dig deeper and never take anyones word for real facts. You do not have to be a chemist or toxicologist to understand the facts. Just your brains, and, your refusal to accept bunk. Keep your eyes wide shut and your brain wide open.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Politics and Water Don't Mix but You Can Stir Them Up
Our country is bubbling over whether or not to make health care available to all citizens regardless of income and ability to pay. From my viewpoint this issue should not be an issue and instead reality. All of our citizens, like citizens of all other advanced countries who already have universal health care, are inherently entitled to health care when it is needed. As important however is the avoidance and prevention of needless and avoidable diseases. The health care systems are designed to help you recover after acquiring disease, but very ineffectual in preventing diseases. Our country spends about 2-3 billion dollars annually treating diseases, many of which could be prevented if our country and our politicians had the will to do so.
Unfortunately politics and water don't mix, and consequently our people will continue to suffer from avoidable and deadly diseases that are caused by toxic and carcinogenic man made chemical substance that are in drinking water that we all consume and depend upon. All water on Earth has been toxified by our collective ignorance of reality and the ongoing production and widespread use of toxic and carcinogenic substances that are the direct output of the most profitable and ubiquitous worldwide petrochemical industry, and our nearly indiscriminate utilization of substances that poison the very ground we walk on and the water we drink. We blithely ignore the consequences until some noteworthy event exposes a local problem and as soon as it is out of the news we forget and fail to connect the isolated bit of news to the big picture. We seem to assume that we will all be protected by the brotherly arms of local, state, and federal agencies that have the responsibility to assure safe drinking water. Sorry folks, if you believe that then you are just as likely to believe that the tooth fairy will put a gold doubloon under your pillow.
In the same way that the health insurance industry in the USA has hoodwinked many of us into believing that they really aspire to provide affordable health care, the petrochemical multinational corporations have successfully induced us to believe that all the chemical substances they produce and are contained in millions of consumer products are as safe as pure spring water. We have become so gullible that we unconsciously acquiesce and fall into a dream-like trance that enables us to believe the advertisements and propaganda that the chemical industry and their purveyors promote. Since water and politics don't mix our elected officials are very happy to accept bountiful campaign donations from the petrochemical corporations that resist all regulatory action to limit their activities and potentially reduce corporate profits.
For those of you who are skeptical of my remarks please avail yourselves of the opportunity to start to become informed about the most important aspect of health preservation: safe drinking water free of toxins and carcinogens. First, visit your local water department or sanitation office and request all the information that they have regarding water quality. If you don't understand some of the material ask questions until you are satisfied that you understand the material. Than I suggest that you obtain two government publications that are available on line or by regular mail from the Environmental Protection Agency and National Institute of health, respectively. The first is the EPA Toxic Release Inventory Report that contains partial information about toxic and carcinogenic chemical releases caused during production of these substance and is reported annually. Every member of Congress is issued a copy of this report that lists approximately 750 man made chemical substance of the over 3,000 commonly used in every day consumer products. Read it and ask the EPA questions until you are satisfied that you understand the implications and content sufficiently. The second government report is the NIH Report on Carcinogens that also is published annually and submitted to every Congressional member. This report lists about 275 of the thousands of carcinogenic substance found in human beings who have consumed contaminated water and describes the potential cancerous outcomes of exposure. You may not understand some of the medical and chemical terms in these two publications, nonetheless you will certainly begin to get the picture of how these chemicals found in some drinking water threaten our health and how avoidance could help prevent diseases rather than try to cure or remiss them after we get sick.
The purpose of this blog is to engage you in matters that are vital to prevent diseases and disabilities that are caused by man made toxic and carcinogenic chemicals that are in our drinking water at different locations in our country. Future blogs will engage you in more dialogue to promote greater public awareness and stimulate action aimed at political action instead of silence. We must stir up the apparently oblivious majority of Congress and force them to drink the water that they ignore. Perhaps then we will begin to foster preventive health programs starting with the elimination of toxic and carcinogenic chemical production and use.
Unfortunately politics and water don't mix, and consequently our people will continue to suffer from avoidable and deadly diseases that are caused by toxic and carcinogenic man made chemical substance that are in drinking water that we all consume and depend upon. All water on Earth has been toxified by our collective ignorance of reality and the ongoing production and widespread use of toxic and carcinogenic substances that are the direct output of the most profitable and ubiquitous worldwide petrochemical industry, and our nearly indiscriminate utilization of substances that poison the very ground we walk on and the water we drink. We blithely ignore the consequences until some noteworthy event exposes a local problem and as soon as it is out of the news we forget and fail to connect the isolated bit of news to the big picture. We seem to assume that we will all be protected by the brotherly arms of local, state, and federal agencies that have the responsibility to assure safe drinking water. Sorry folks, if you believe that then you are just as likely to believe that the tooth fairy will put a gold doubloon under your pillow.
In the same way that the health insurance industry in the USA has hoodwinked many of us into believing that they really aspire to provide affordable health care, the petrochemical multinational corporations have successfully induced us to believe that all the chemical substances they produce and are contained in millions of consumer products are as safe as pure spring water. We have become so gullible that we unconsciously acquiesce and fall into a dream-like trance that enables us to believe the advertisements and propaganda that the chemical industry and their purveyors promote. Since water and politics don't mix our elected officials are very happy to accept bountiful campaign donations from the petrochemical corporations that resist all regulatory action to limit their activities and potentially reduce corporate profits.
For those of you who are skeptical of my remarks please avail yourselves of the opportunity to start to become informed about the most important aspect of health preservation: safe drinking water free of toxins and carcinogens. First, visit your local water department or sanitation office and request all the information that they have regarding water quality. If you don't understand some of the material ask questions until you are satisfied that you understand the material. Than I suggest that you obtain two government publications that are available on line or by regular mail from the Environmental Protection Agency and National Institute of health, respectively. The first is the EPA Toxic Release Inventory Report that contains partial information about toxic and carcinogenic chemical releases caused during production of these substance and is reported annually. Every member of Congress is issued a copy of this report that lists approximately 750 man made chemical substance of the over 3,000 commonly used in every day consumer products. Read it and ask the EPA questions until you are satisfied that you understand the implications and content sufficiently. The second government report is the NIH Report on Carcinogens that also is published annually and submitted to every Congressional member. This report lists about 275 of the thousands of carcinogenic substance found in human beings who have consumed contaminated water and describes the potential cancerous outcomes of exposure. You may not understand some of the medical and chemical terms in these two publications, nonetheless you will certainly begin to get the picture of how these chemicals found in some drinking water threaten our health and how avoidance could help prevent diseases rather than try to cure or remiss them after we get sick.
The purpose of this blog is to engage you in matters that are vital to prevent diseases and disabilities that are caused by man made toxic and carcinogenic chemicals that are in our drinking water at different locations in our country. Future blogs will engage you in more dialogue to promote greater public awareness and stimulate action aimed at political action instead of silence. We must stir up the apparently oblivious majority of Congress and force them to drink the water that they ignore. Perhaps then we will begin to foster preventive health programs starting with the elimination of toxic and carcinogenic chemical production and use.
Friday, July 17, 2009
Water,Water,Everywhere But Not a Drop to Drink
This notice from the EPA was just released regarding remediation of leaking fuel tanks in Indiana. The leakage contaminates ground water that is the source of drinking and household use. The toxins in fuel are often carcinogenic and very dangerous. Here is the notice:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. 09-OPA128
EPA awards more than $4 million in Recovery Act funds to clean up underground petroleum leaks in Indiana
EPA: Funds help create jobs and protect Indiana's land and water.
Contact: Karen Thompson, 312-353-8547, thompson.karen@epa.gov
(Chicago, Ill - July 16, 2009) In an effort to protect people where they live, work, and play, EPA announced the distribution of more than $4 million to Indiana under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to assess and clean up underground storage tank petroleum leaks. The greatest potential hazard from a leaking underground storage tank is that the petroleum or other hazardous substances seep into the soil and contaminate groundwater, the source of drinking water for nearly one-third of all Americans.
"We're providing immediate growth opportunities for communities across the nation, as well as long-term protection from dangerous pollution in the land and water," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. "EPA is putting people to work by serving our core mission of protecting human health and the environment."
This money is part of $197 million appropriated under the Recovery Act to address shovel-ready sites nationwide contaminated by petroleum from leaking underground storage tanks. The funds will be used for overseeing assessment and cleanup of leaks from underground storage tanks or directly paying for assessment and cleanup of leaks from federally regulated tanks where the responsible party is unknown, unwilling or unable to finance, or the cleanup is an emergency response.
EPA regional underground storage tank programs will enter into a cooperative agreement with Indiana Department of Environmental Management in July 2009. The cooperative agreement will include more detailed descriptions of state spending plans.
"The Recovery Act support for underground storage tank cleanup is a great investment in environmental protection and will provide long-term economic benefits for Indiana," said Bharat Mathur acting regional administrator in Chicago.
President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on February 17, 2009, and has directed that the Recovery Act be implemented with unprecedented transparency and accountability. To that end, the American people can visit Recovery.gov to see how every dollar is being invested.
Learn more about EPA's implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: http://www.epa.gov/recovery/
With this EPA notice as background please continue reading to find out how your back yard may be vulnerable to toxic infiltration from leaking fuel tanks even as you read this.
Those of you who live in Door County near Fish Creek and Ephraim should be very happy to hear that a new 12,000 gallon gasoline tank for leaded aircraft gas is in the process of being installed underground at the Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport off HWY 42 and Maple Grove Road.It will replace an 1,100 gallon above ground mobile fuel tank. Once installed this tank will be preparing to leak sometime in the future. This double walled tank is supposedly leak proof. As an engineer and materials scientist this is impossible. All tanks made by man will eventually leak as corrosion, vibration, freeze-thaw cycles and other factors enlarge small inherent defects into small leaks that gradually become larger. This leaded fuel tank will contain enough leaded gasoline to contaminate all water supplies in the Town of Gibraltar (including Fish Creek) and Village of Ephraim when it leaks and contaminates ground water and aquifers, despite the political assurances that you may get to the contrary.
The shore residences will find toxic gasoline chemicals in the bay, as fish and other wild life suffer and die. The EPA and WI Department of Natural Resources had better have an emergency plan in place along with the WI DOT (who authorized and funded the tank with our tax dollars. The fuel in the tank will be dispersed by individual pilots who need to gas up. Spillage will be uncontrolled but supposedly retained by by appropriate barriers. Of course the concrete barriers will also leak and gradually the uncontrolled and unmonitored spillage will contaminate the ground water also. Get your reverse osmosis water purification systems now if you haven't got one yet.
This is another example of "earmark" giveaway of tax dollars to a special interest group who in this case own private aircraft that occasionally fly in and out of Northern Door County, and serves about 35 aircraft owners who hanger their aircraft at the airport. This and thousands of other boutique airports like it are given grants by the Federal and State governments from our collective tax dollars for their own use. The Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport has received well over one million dollars over the past 5 years and is slated to receive about the same for the next 3 years unless the budget axe falls as it should.
This information is presented as a public disclosure that your elected officials generally prefer to keep quite.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
No. 09-OPA128
EPA awards more than $4 million in Recovery Act funds to clean up underground petroleum leaks in Indiana
EPA: Funds help create jobs and protect Indiana's land and water.
Contact: Karen Thompson, 312-353-8547, thompson.karen@epa.gov
(Chicago, Ill - July 16, 2009) In an effort to protect people where they live, work, and play, EPA announced the distribution of more than $4 million to Indiana under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to assess and clean up underground storage tank petroleum leaks. The greatest potential hazard from a leaking underground storage tank is that the petroleum or other hazardous substances seep into the soil and contaminate groundwater, the source of drinking water for nearly one-third of all Americans.
"We're providing immediate growth opportunities for communities across the nation, as well as long-term protection from dangerous pollution in the land and water," said EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson. "EPA is putting people to work by serving our core mission of protecting human health and the environment."
This money is part of $197 million appropriated under the Recovery Act to address shovel-ready sites nationwide contaminated by petroleum from leaking underground storage tanks. The funds will be used for overseeing assessment and cleanup of leaks from underground storage tanks or directly paying for assessment and cleanup of leaks from federally regulated tanks where the responsible party is unknown, unwilling or unable to finance, or the cleanup is an emergency response.
EPA regional underground storage tank programs will enter into a cooperative agreement with Indiana Department of Environmental Management in July 2009. The cooperative agreement will include more detailed descriptions of state spending plans.
"The Recovery Act support for underground storage tank cleanup is a great investment in environmental protection and will provide long-term economic benefits for Indiana," said Bharat Mathur acting regional administrator in Chicago.
President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on February 17, 2009, and has directed that the Recovery Act be implemented with unprecedented transparency and accountability. To that end, the American people can visit Recovery.gov to see how every dollar is being invested.
Learn more about EPA's implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009: http://www.epa.gov/recovery/
With this EPA notice as background please continue reading to find out how your back yard may be vulnerable to toxic infiltration from leaking fuel tanks even as you read this.
Those of you who live in Door County near Fish Creek and Ephraim should be very happy to hear that a new 12,000 gallon gasoline tank for leaded aircraft gas is in the process of being installed underground at the Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport off HWY 42 and Maple Grove Road.It will replace an 1,100 gallon above ground mobile fuel tank. Once installed this tank will be preparing to leak sometime in the future. This double walled tank is supposedly leak proof. As an engineer and materials scientist this is impossible. All tanks made by man will eventually leak as corrosion, vibration, freeze-thaw cycles and other factors enlarge small inherent defects into small leaks that gradually become larger. This leaded fuel tank will contain enough leaded gasoline to contaminate all water supplies in the Town of Gibraltar (including Fish Creek) and Village of Ephraim when it leaks and contaminates ground water and aquifers, despite the political assurances that you may get to the contrary.
The shore residences will find toxic gasoline chemicals in the bay, as fish and other wild life suffer and die. The EPA and WI Department of Natural Resources had better have an emergency plan in place along with the WI DOT (who authorized and funded the tank with our tax dollars. The fuel in the tank will be dispersed by individual pilots who need to gas up. Spillage will be uncontrolled but supposedly retained by by appropriate barriers. Of course the concrete barriers will also leak and gradually the uncontrolled and unmonitored spillage will contaminate the ground water also. Get your reverse osmosis water purification systems now if you haven't got one yet.
This is another example of "earmark" giveaway of tax dollars to a special interest group who in this case own private aircraft that occasionally fly in and out of Northern Door County, and serves about 35 aircraft owners who hanger their aircraft at the airport. This and thousands of other boutique airports like it are given grants by the Federal and State governments from our collective tax dollars for their own use. The Ephraim-Gibraltar Airport has received well over one million dollars over the past 5 years and is slated to receive about the same for the next 3 years unless the budget axe falls as it should.
This information is presented as a public disclosure that your elected officials generally prefer to keep quite.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Senator Feingold Listening Session
Yesterday Wisconsin's Senator Russ Feingold convened one of his regular listening sessions to receive input from Wisconsin residents. The Session was held at Sevastopol's new Town Hall in Door County, Wisconsin. Over 100 people attended and everyone who wanted to voice their opinion or ask a question was called upon by Senator Feingold to do so. Those of you who have participated in one of these sessions have experienced a unique aspect of how Senator Feingold represents all residents of Wisconsin and does so in an open serious way. This is an example of how Democracy should work and engage all citizens. Ask your Senators in your state to replicate Senator Feingold's method of reaching every state citizen. If you are a Wisconsin resident make it a point to attend a Sen. Feingold session in your county. He holds a session in every Wisconsin county annually.
Health care was the main subject brought up by the participants and Sen. Feingold responded by strongly supporting the need to provide health care for every citizen. He also stated that President Obama needed to hear from every citizen supporting a public option for health insurance coverage. Your inputs during the Congressional August recess will help provide support for a more affordable health care option. Tell your House of Representatives member and Senators that you support an affordable public option for health care coverage. Sen. Feingold reiterated the value and importance of your inputs and how they will influence the eventual legislation.
The topic that I submitted to Sen. Feingold concerned how environmental man made toxins and health issues intersect, and what can be done to minimize diseases caused by these toxins and carcinogenic man made chemicals. Sen. Feingold was very interested and stated that he was starting to examine and legislate similar issues. He promised to send me information concerning his work on this issue. These will be discussed in future blogs.
For your information my input to Senator Feingold is reproduced below. Please read it and take appropriate action yourself. Thanks.
____________________________________________________________________________________
July 11, 2009
Senator Russ Feingold
Wisconsin, USA
Subject: Prevention of Diseases and Deaths by Eliminating Toxic and Carcinogenic Man Made Chemicals from the Environment
Dear Senator Feingold,
Thank you for taking your time today to communicate with some of your constituents in Wisconsin. The purpose of my input is to encourage you to lead an effort in Congress to stop the production and dissemination of man made toxic and carcinogenic chemicals that have caused and continue to cause millions of our people to suffer and die from preventable diseases.
The health care debate in Congress is focusing on supplying affordable health care for all. This is commendable. However, coverage alone is a band aid unless we do something to prevent debilitating and deadly diseases caused by environmental man made chemicals.
Thousands of man made toxic substances contaminates water, land, air, and foods as we unwittingly assume that our government is doing everything reasonable to assure a safe environment. We believe that cancer and other diseases that kill even infants are natural occurrences. Many if not most are caused by man made carcinogenic chemicals that have poisoned our bodies and those of child bearing mothers and their babies as well. Most of the toxic and carcinogenic man made chemicals have been developed and dispersed for use during the previous 75 years.
Your legislative actions to protect the water supplies of our country is vital, and must result in the protection of mankind’s’ most essential chemical compound, water. This requires legislation to prevent the abuse and misuse of land and water supplies. However, unless water contamination by toxic and carcinogenic man made chemicals is prevented the waters essential to all life will instead continue to be harbingers of disease and death as well.
You and your staff are undoubtedly informed by the annual reports that are provided Congress concerning man made toxic and carcinogenic chemical that are continuously released into the environment and the diseases that they can cause. These reports include the “Annual Report on Carcinogens “(known as ROC) now in its 11th edition that is compiled and published by the National Institute of Health. Another report is the Center for Disease Control “National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals” published this June.
The Environmental Protection Agency prepares an annual Report, “Toxic Release Inventory Report” (known as TRI) that details the environmental toxins and bio- accumulative carcinogenic substances spewed from industrial and military sources in our nation. This report vastly underestimates the actual chemical contamination since it did not include individual releases of less than 2,500 pounds annually (recently decreased to 500 pounds) and also does not include commercial and home use discharges into our environment. The underestimated more than 4 billion pounds of toxic and carcinogenic man made chemicals into air, land, and water (eventually all these chemicals are carried into and by water) discharged in 2007 is equal to over 1,000 pound of man made toxins and carcinogenic chemicals for every man, women, and child living in our country now, and being carried in their mother’s wombs awaiting birth with contaminated blood.
As you and your staff also undoubtedly are aware our country’s municipal water supplies are under the surveillance of the EPA for purity and quality. Review of the EPA standards will show you that a very small number of chemicals are regulated compared to the many thousands that are actually in use. The ROC report includes over 250 carcinogenic man made chemicals compared to approximately 100 regulated by drinking water standards. The TRI includes over 750 bio-accumulative carcinogenic man made chemicals in the latest report. Why are so many toxic chemicals unregulated that are known to contaminate water, land, air, and foods? This question requires immediate investigation and remedial action.
A further point requiring investigation and action is related to the potential for synergistic harm caused by even trace amounts of toxic substances. The EPA purity standards for drinking water are set as if only one toxic contaminant exists by itself. This Alice in Wonderland approach defies all logic and scientific knowledge about biological organisms and humans. We become a cocktail of carcinogenic substances with every glass of water and our liver and circulatory systems, etc. cannot separate one toxin from another in our bodies. This utterly senseless approach to establishing water quality standards must be replaced with a reality based system that considers all toxic chemicals and their synergistic health dangers.
Your staff would also be well advised to discuss the water purity question with managing directors of Municipal Water and Sewerage Treatment facilities and you will discover that the water purification technology used in the USA today cannot remove the deadly trace chemicals that pass through and that we consume. The technology is obsolete and must be replaced with effective and costlier technology that is being used in several European countries. Furthermore, sewerage treatment processes now in use in the USA cannot remove deadly trace chemicals that end up discharged into lakes, oceans, or landfills and continuously increase the toxic burden carried into domestic water supplies.
Our nation’s municipal water and sewerage treatment plants must be re engineered and built to protect our people from diseases that are burdening our health care system and escalating medical treatment costs as well. A Roosevelt WPA type program is absolutely essential and will save billions if not trillions of dollars in future health care costs while providing millions of productive jobs and eventually eliminate needless diseases, deaths, and suffering caused by toxic water-borne chemicals.
The issues discussed in this letter demand immediate action that surpasses the global warming problem. Both are of great concern but millions of people are contacting cancer and other debilitating diseases this very moment because we have ignored the ongoing contamination of our planet with man made toxic and carcinogenic disease-causing chemicals that we then attempt to ameliorate by medical treatments. Unless prevention by elimination of these deadly man made chemicals is achieved we will continue our endless treadmill journey of treatment of avoidable diseases caused by toxic and carcinogenic chemicals that we permit to be developed, commercialized, and used world wide.
Thank you again for your contributions to our country and state. You are the best Senator in our country and our state and nation will always be grateful.
Yours Truly,
Zalman P. Saperstein
3155 Gibraltar Road
Fish Creek, WI 54212
920-839 2811
zeepsap@gmail.com
P.S. Attached is a copy of my book pertaining to this subject, “A Drinker’s Guide to Pure Water: Is your Water Safe?” Please share this with your staff and others as you see fit.
Health care was the main subject brought up by the participants and Sen. Feingold responded by strongly supporting the need to provide health care for every citizen. He also stated that President Obama needed to hear from every citizen supporting a public option for health insurance coverage. Your inputs during the Congressional August recess will help provide support for a more affordable health care option. Tell your House of Representatives member and Senators that you support an affordable public option for health care coverage. Sen. Feingold reiterated the value and importance of your inputs and how they will influence the eventual legislation.
The topic that I submitted to Sen. Feingold concerned how environmental man made toxins and health issues intersect, and what can be done to minimize diseases caused by these toxins and carcinogenic man made chemicals. Sen. Feingold was very interested and stated that he was starting to examine and legislate similar issues. He promised to send me information concerning his work on this issue. These will be discussed in future blogs.
For your information my input to Senator Feingold is reproduced below. Please read it and take appropriate action yourself. Thanks.
____________________________________________________________________________________
July 11, 2009
Senator Russ Feingold
Wisconsin, USA
Subject: Prevention of Diseases and Deaths by Eliminating Toxic and Carcinogenic Man Made Chemicals from the Environment
Dear Senator Feingold,
Thank you for taking your time today to communicate with some of your constituents in Wisconsin. The purpose of my input is to encourage you to lead an effort in Congress to stop the production and dissemination of man made toxic and carcinogenic chemicals that have caused and continue to cause millions of our people to suffer and die from preventable diseases.
The health care debate in Congress is focusing on supplying affordable health care for all. This is commendable. However, coverage alone is a band aid unless we do something to prevent debilitating and deadly diseases caused by environmental man made chemicals.
Thousands of man made toxic substances contaminates water, land, air, and foods as we unwittingly assume that our government is doing everything reasonable to assure a safe environment. We believe that cancer and other diseases that kill even infants are natural occurrences. Many if not most are caused by man made carcinogenic chemicals that have poisoned our bodies and those of child bearing mothers and their babies as well. Most of the toxic and carcinogenic man made chemicals have been developed and dispersed for use during the previous 75 years.
Your legislative actions to protect the water supplies of our country is vital, and must result in the protection of mankind’s’ most essential chemical compound, water. This requires legislation to prevent the abuse and misuse of land and water supplies. However, unless water contamination by toxic and carcinogenic man made chemicals is prevented the waters essential to all life will instead continue to be harbingers of disease and death as well.
You and your staff are undoubtedly informed by the annual reports that are provided Congress concerning man made toxic and carcinogenic chemical that are continuously released into the environment and the diseases that they can cause. These reports include the “Annual Report on Carcinogens “(known as ROC) now in its 11th edition that is compiled and published by the National Institute of Health. Another report is the Center for Disease Control “National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals” published this June.
The Environmental Protection Agency prepares an annual Report, “Toxic Release Inventory Report” (known as TRI) that details the environmental toxins and bio- accumulative carcinogenic substances spewed from industrial and military sources in our nation. This report vastly underestimates the actual chemical contamination since it did not include individual releases of less than 2,500 pounds annually (recently decreased to 500 pounds) and also does not include commercial and home use discharges into our environment. The underestimated more than 4 billion pounds of toxic and carcinogenic man made chemicals into air, land, and water (eventually all these chemicals are carried into and by water) discharged in 2007 is equal to over 1,000 pound of man made toxins and carcinogenic chemicals for every man, women, and child living in our country now, and being carried in their mother’s wombs awaiting birth with contaminated blood.
As you and your staff also undoubtedly are aware our country’s municipal water supplies are under the surveillance of the EPA for purity and quality. Review of the EPA standards will show you that a very small number of chemicals are regulated compared to the many thousands that are actually in use. The ROC report includes over 250 carcinogenic man made chemicals compared to approximately 100 regulated by drinking water standards. The TRI includes over 750 bio-accumulative carcinogenic man made chemicals in the latest report. Why are so many toxic chemicals unregulated that are known to contaminate water, land, air, and foods? This question requires immediate investigation and remedial action.
A further point requiring investigation and action is related to the potential for synergistic harm caused by even trace amounts of toxic substances. The EPA purity standards for drinking water are set as if only one toxic contaminant exists by itself. This Alice in Wonderland approach defies all logic and scientific knowledge about biological organisms and humans. We become a cocktail of carcinogenic substances with every glass of water and our liver and circulatory systems, etc. cannot separate one toxin from another in our bodies. This utterly senseless approach to establishing water quality standards must be replaced with a reality based system that considers all toxic chemicals and their synergistic health dangers.
Your staff would also be well advised to discuss the water purity question with managing directors of Municipal Water and Sewerage Treatment facilities and you will discover that the water purification technology used in the USA today cannot remove the deadly trace chemicals that pass through and that we consume. The technology is obsolete and must be replaced with effective and costlier technology that is being used in several European countries. Furthermore, sewerage treatment processes now in use in the USA cannot remove deadly trace chemicals that end up discharged into lakes, oceans, or landfills and continuously increase the toxic burden carried into domestic water supplies.
Our nation’s municipal water and sewerage treatment plants must be re engineered and built to protect our people from diseases that are burdening our health care system and escalating medical treatment costs as well. A Roosevelt WPA type program is absolutely essential and will save billions if not trillions of dollars in future health care costs while providing millions of productive jobs and eventually eliminate needless diseases, deaths, and suffering caused by toxic water-borne chemicals.
The issues discussed in this letter demand immediate action that surpasses the global warming problem. Both are of great concern but millions of people are contacting cancer and other debilitating diseases this very moment because we have ignored the ongoing contamination of our planet with man made toxic and carcinogenic disease-causing chemicals that we then attempt to ameliorate by medical treatments. Unless prevention by elimination of these deadly man made chemicals is achieved we will continue our endless treadmill journey of treatment of avoidable diseases caused by toxic and carcinogenic chemicals that we permit to be developed, commercialized, and used world wide.
Thank you again for your contributions to our country and state. You are the best Senator in our country and our state and nation will always be grateful.
Yours Truly,
Zalman P. Saperstein
3155 Gibraltar Road
Fish Creek, WI 54212
920-839 2811
zeepsap@gmail.com
P.S. Attached is a copy of my book pertaining to this subject, “A Drinker’s Guide to Pure Water: Is your Water Safe?” Please share this with your staff and others as you see fit.
Saturday, June 27, 2009
A Big Step to Clean the Environment--Your Action is Vital
Yesterday the House of Representatives passes the "American Clean Energy and Security Act" that passes the ball to the Senate for future action. President Obama has repeatedly supported the bill for both economic and environmental reasons. . If passed by the Senate, and when signed by President Obama, this bill will begin an era of cleaner air, water, and food that will improved health and reduce medical costs, as added benefits.
In our country alone over 4 billion pounds of toxic chemicals are released annually into the air, water and lands of our country. This is equivalent to over 1,000 pounds per man, woman and child living in our country. These toxic and often carcinogenic chemicals are the byproduct of coal burning power plants, chemical production, various manufacturing practices, and waste disposal. Many of these toxic releases are carcinogenic and they accumulate in the tissues and organs of our bodies causing diseases and deaths. . We unknowingly consume these toxic chemical when we drink water, consume food, and breathe the very air that surrounds us. We cannot entirely escape the damaging by-products of an industialized nation and world, but we can minimize our exposure and work to improve the environment for future generations.
The House passage of the "American Clean Energy and Security Act" is a big step toward clean energy and oil independence, but even more importantly when it becomes law it will start us on a pathway to a cleaner and healthier environment that is less contaminated with toxic man made chemicals. A new era will truly begin.
However for this to occur will require action by all citizens to ensure passage of the bill by the Senate. Everyone who wants a healthier life for themselves and their loved ones must assume some responsibility to achieve this goal and let your Senators hear from you. Passage of this bill is imperative if we care about the future for our nation's children and young ones. They will inherit the toxins that we allow and the environment we permit to be further degraded unless we demand change that will improve our environment. Future generations will look back to our times and commemorate the big step that began with the passage of the "American Clean Energy and Security Act". This will happen if you demand action.
Join an environmental organization such as the Sierra Club, Environmental Working Group, Bioneers or any other of your choice, and become active now. We have the opportunity to improve the quality of life for all. Do it!
In our country alone over 4 billion pounds of toxic chemicals are released annually into the air, water and lands of our country. This is equivalent to over 1,000 pounds per man, woman and child living in our country. These toxic and often carcinogenic chemicals are the byproduct of coal burning power plants, chemical production, various manufacturing practices, and waste disposal. Many of these toxic releases are carcinogenic and they accumulate in the tissues and organs of our bodies causing diseases and deaths. . We unknowingly consume these toxic chemical when we drink water, consume food, and breathe the very air that surrounds us. We cannot entirely escape the damaging by-products of an industialized nation and world, but we can minimize our exposure and work to improve the environment for future generations.
The House passage of the "American Clean Energy and Security Act" is a big step toward clean energy and oil independence, but even more importantly when it becomes law it will start us on a pathway to a cleaner and healthier environment that is less contaminated with toxic man made chemicals. A new era will truly begin.
However for this to occur will require action by all citizens to ensure passage of the bill by the Senate. Everyone who wants a healthier life for themselves and their loved ones must assume some responsibility to achieve this goal and let your Senators hear from you. Passage of this bill is imperative if we care about the future for our nation's children and young ones. They will inherit the toxins that we allow and the environment we permit to be further degraded unless we demand change that will improve our environment. Future generations will look back to our times and commemorate the big step that began with the passage of the "American Clean Energy and Security Act". This will happen if you demand action.
Join an environmental organization such as the Sierra Club, Environmental Working Group, Bioneers or any other of your choice, and become active now. We have the opportunity to improve the quality of life for all. Do it!
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