Comments on: Clean Water is Environmental Justice

By: Teri

Teri — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:57:12 +0000

Nancy,
It is not only the people on private wells, but also the people on municipal water systems. All those valley fills and sediment runoff goes to the creeks that feed our rivers, then we pump the water back to our faucets. Our municipal systems can not deal with such heavy loads of metals. But yea there are still many on wells, one community in Letcher County was told to not have contact with their water by The KY Division of Water.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:35:21 +0000

This is such a great sounding discusion and one that is commendable: water quality, environmental justice, access to good clean water- but is is all a sham as long as EPA allows municipalities to intentionally poison our water with the hazardous waste dumped into it.

Hydrofluorosilicic acid has no place in our water supply and EPA knows it. EPA is cognizant of the health effects now known from water fluoridation. EPA knows that NSF has never conducted any longitudinal safety studies and EPA knows that fluoridation is causing real harm in this population from endocrine disruption, brain and fetal effects to the chelation of calcium.

Are the huge arthritis numbers we are seing just early stages of late stage I and stage II skeletal fluorosis? Very likely. The people are loosing confidence in our government, and EPA needs to take a stand and end the political shenanigans, and end the forced ‘medication’ of the water supply with a hazardous waste.

Does EPA know how much this country is going to be spending on ailments very likely related to a lifetime of ingested fluoride?

EPA can end this, EPA should end this, and EPA should act soon. The 2006 Fluoride report was clear enough that you have ample science on your side.

End the slow poisoning of the population. Really make your words mean something.

By: C Socotch

C Socotch — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 16:20:36 +0000

Nancy,

Perhaps the USEPA should be working with the rural communities to provide safe drinking water to individuals that still rely on wells and springs that was impacted from past (pre-law) mining contaminants and not worry so much about mountain-top mining which has minimal impact to ground water supplies. You would be amazed at the high amount of folks in the Appalchian states that are still on private drinking water systems. Many of those even close to urban areas that could have possibility of tapping into public water systems. They still don’t have clean or safe drinking water due to contaminants from old abandoned underground and surface mines.

By: Karen A. Vilandry

Karen A. Vilandry — Sun, 30 Sep 2012 21:03:54 +0000

This makes me laugh. Environmental Justice is NOT the EPA, Region 1`s plans to bury PCB contaminated sediment, 300,000 cy, in New Bedford Harbor. How does that protect our community and the waterway here? The lawsuit that you have filed against AVX needs to cover the costs for complete removal of PCB sediment offsite to a TSCA approved landfill as you have been doing in the upper harbor. These plans violate our human rights, environmental justice to a clean environment with clean air and water. We surely don’t expect that the agency that was put in place to clean up our environment would actually violate its purpose by deliberately burying PCB sediment in a river. Don’t let anyone kid anyone. Nowhere in New England or even the country has the EPA buried PCB sediment in a river. You need to stop this now!

By: Teri

Teri — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 10:54:50 +0000

thank You Nancy and Lisa Jackson. We need all the help we can get in Appalachia our people are dieing.

By: Master Melvin M. Lusterio

Master Melvin M. Lusterio — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:52:46 +0000

The Good Force be with you!

Excellent, Nancy! You did it right! Keep up the good work!

Live forever and prosper!