2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 12 Oct 2006 04:09:30 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Downstream from the Savannah River Site (SC/GA)
 
There Must be Something in the Water

Is radioactivity from SRS threatening the long-term health of the Savannah River?

By Stacey Kronquest
Connect Savannah (GA)
October 11, 2006


Every morning an employee of the City of Savannah drives 75 miles upriver to a bridge on Highway 301 outside Sylvania, to catch a water sample of the Savannah River. The sample is brought back to the Savannah Water Treatment & Supply Plant where it is tested for elevated levels of radioactivity.


Why do this? “That’s our early warning system,” says Willy Weil, an administrator at the water plant.

Weil says their testing system would give Savannah about 90 hours to act before the contaminated water flows into the lower river basin where the city draws 35 million gallons a day to supply drinking water to Pooler, Port Wentworth and Effingham County.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.connectsavannah.com/show_article.php?article_id=1333

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Lenny Siegel Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041 Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545 Fax: 650/961-8918 <lsiegel@cpeo.org> http://www.cpeo.org


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