OPC: Texas officials covered up dangerously radioactive tap #water for years - #fracking gas drilling pollution

What do you want to bet that this water contamination results from natural gas drilling? Some of the article comments are in agreement with this idea.

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proclus
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Revealed: Texas officials covered up dangerously radioactive tap water for years

via One Penny Sheet by OPS_admin on 11/12/10

Texas officials charged with protecting the environment and public health have for years made arbitrary subtractions to the measured levels of radiation delivered by water utilities across the state, according to a series of investigative reports out of Houston.

Those subtractions, based on the test results’ margin of error, made all the difference for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ): without the reduction, demonstrated levels of dangerous radiation would have been in excess of federal limits for years.

This was being done in direct contravention of an order by the US Environmental Protection Agency, which told state regulators in 2000 to stop subtracting the margin of error.

The findings are part of an investigation by Houston CBS affiliate KHOU.

Full Story: Revealed: Texas officials covered up dangerously radioactive tap water for years | Raw Story.

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