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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skywatcher who wrote (454229)	9/7/2003 9:28:47 PM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

NEWS: BUSH JUST MADE TOXIC WASTE LEGAL!!! pensacolanewsjournal.com Radioactive water flowed to thousands of homes 10,000 Pensacola, Gulf Breeze residents drank unsafe water for 54 months Read also: Radium's risk not agreed on Timeline of events Scott Streater @PensacolaNewsJournal.com Thousands of people in Pensacola and Gulf Breeze drank water contaminated with high levels of radioactive material for more than four years. A Superfund hazardous waste site in central Pensacola might be the source of the contamination. People were drinking the contaminated water as recently as September 2000. A review of more than 50,000 pages of public documents reveals that for at least 54 months, between February 1996 and September 2000, more than 10,000 residents in Pensacola and Gulf Breeze were drinking water polluted with radium 226/228 at levels considered unsafe by the federal government. All drinking water supplied by the Escambia County Utilities Authority today meets state and federal standards. .......more