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<div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">To all: Did you know <span style="text-indent: 48px;">In the late 1960s, a clever EPA chemist (Ervin Bellack) created the ideal solution to a monumental radioactive-pollution problem by recognizing that concentrated "<b>scrubber liquor</b>" was also contaminated by</span> fluoride (~</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">19%)</span>; making it <span style="text-indent: 48px;">an ideal water fluoridation agent? Did you also know the other 81% contained radioactive waste that would have to be transported from Florida's uranium mines in Bone Valley to Yucca Mountain</span><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="text-indent: 48px;">, which President Bush opened when he took office and President Obama closed when he took office? </span></font><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="text-indent: 48px;">Mr. </span></font><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Bellack </span>was hailed by another clever EPA official, Rebecca Hammer, <span style="text-indent: 48px;">EPA Office of Water Deputy Administrator as follows: "<b><i>In regard to the use of fluosilicic (fluorosilicic) acid as a source of fluoride for fluoridation, this agency regards such use as an ideal environmental solution to a long-standing problem. By recovering by-product fluosilicic acid from fertilizer manufacturing, water and air pollution are minimized, and water utilities have a low-cost source of fluoride available to them.</i></b>" [</span><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="text-indent: 48px;">References are provided in my email to Congressman Zeldin @ </span></font><a href="http://www.gfxtechnology.com/Zeldin.html" target="_blank">www.gfxtechnology.com/Zeldin.html</a>, which you may want to forward to your State & Federal Representatives] </font></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="text-indent: 48px;"> Did you know f</span></font>ew water companies test for Rn-220, R-222, Po-210, Po-212, Po-213, Po-214, Po-215, Po-216 & Po-218 even though the EPA requires such testing -<b>except for the most common Rn-222</b>?[See Attachment A:<span class="ecxapple-converted-space"> </span><b><i>List of
Man-made and Naturally-Occurring Radionuclides addressed by <span style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">15 pCi/L gross alpha particle activity MCL standard</span></i></b>;
EPA Directive no. 9283.1-14: Use of Uranium Drinking Water Standards under 40
CFR 141 and 40 CFR 192 as Remediation Goals for Groundwater at CERCLA sites @<span class="ecxapple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.epa.gov/superfund/health/contaminants/radiation/pdfs/9283_1_14.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.epa.gov/superfund/health/contaminants/radiation/pdfs/9283_1_14.pdf</a>.]</font></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"> Did you know EPA-funded field tests from 1981 to
1989 on 121 GAC systems in 12 states concluded: “<b><i>Many of these GAC
units will not produce a treated water Rn level below the new proposed levels
of 200 to 2,000 pCi/L</i></b>”? [“<b><i>Radon
Removal by POE </i></b><b><i>GAC</i></b><i> </i><b><i>Systems:
Design, Performance, and Cost</i></b>”, <a href="http://www.gfxtechnology.com/GAC.pdf" target="_blank">Report #EPA/600/S2-90/049</a>, by Jerry D.
Lowry, et al, (January 1991); also @ <a href="http://www.gfxtechnology.com/GAC.pdf" target="_blank">www.gfxtechnology.com/GAC.pdf</a>]</font></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"> To solve this problem, instead of mandating aeration systems before GAC systems, the EPA set no MCL for Radon-222 at all. To this day, morons in charge of America's drinking water think it's safe to drink Radon-laden water because there's no EPA of State MCL. </font></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"> To make matters worse, some States impose ridiculous Radon-action levels ranging from 2,000 pCi/L in New Hampshire to 10,000 pCi/L in North Carolina. At such levels, Rn-222, unless first removed by an aeration system, dissolved in water exiting a GAC system will regrow Po-218, Pb-214, Bi-214 & Po-214 to deadly levels in a few minutes as illustrated in the graphs @ <a href="http://www.gfxtechnology.com/Po.html" target="_blank">http://www.gfxtechnology.com/Po.html</a>.</font></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;"><ul><li><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><b>What Rn-action level does your state have?</b> </font></li></ul></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoBodyText"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Yours
truly,<br>
Dr. Carmine F. Vasile</font></p>
<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">631-807-7839<span class="ecxapple-converted-space"> </span></font></p>
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P.S. The Durridge RAD7 is described @ <a href="http://www.durridge.com/products_rad7.shtml" target="_blank">http://www.durridge.com/products_rad7.shtml</a>.<span class="ecxapple-converted-space"> </span>Its SNIFF mode counts P-218 decays and
the Normal mode counts both Po-218 & Po-214, e.g.: </font></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Electrostatic collection of alpha-emitters with spectral
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Passivated Ion-implanted Planar Silicon detector<br>
SNIFF mode counts polonium-218 decays<br>
NORMAL mode counts both polonium 218 and polonium 214 decays</font></p>
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<p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 153);"><b><u><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font></u></b></span></p><p class="ecxMsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 153);"><b><u>Bogus
Water-to-Air Radon Transfer Coefficients</u></b></span></font></p>
<ul style=""><li class="ecxMsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">The
following report used a Durridge RAD7 in 18 homes to prove the EPA's
0.0001 Radon/Air transfer coefficient is too small; by a factor of 3-88: “<b><i><a href="http://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/avnervengosh/files/2011/08/Radon_in_air.pdf" target="_blank">Radon
transfer from groundwater used in showers to indoor air</a></i></b>”, by
David S. Vinson, Ted R. Campbell, Avner Vengosh, J. Appl. Geochemistry,
June 7, 2008 [<span style="color:red;"><a href="https://snt148.mail.live.com/mail/..%5c..%5c..%5c..%5cChange_org%5csites.nicholas.duke.edu%5cavnervengosh%5cfiles%5c2011%5c08%5cRadon_in_air.pdf" target="_blank">http://sites.nicholas.duke.edu/avnervengosh/files/2011/08/Radon_in_air.pdf</a></span>]</font></li><li class="ecxMsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">The
EPA has no MCL for Radon-222's Beta/Gamma-emitting decay products, but
NYS' MCL for the most deadly is Pb-210 is 4 mrem/yr. (See NYS Regulations
Exhibit A of my Polonium Petition to Governor Cuomo @ <a href="http://www.gfxtechnology.com/Cuomo.pdf." target="_blank">http://www.gfxtechnology.com/Cuomo.pdf</a>)
</font></li><li class="ecxMsoNormal" style=""><font face="Arial, sans-serif" size="2">Water
from many LI wells emit over 3,500 mrem/yr, but have never been closed by
corrupt politicians; including the current Suffolk County Executive. He
lies to cover up this problem; even on FACEBOOK as you can verify @<span class="ecxapple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.gfxtechnology.com/Bellone.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.gfxtechnology.com/Bellone.pdf</a>.</font><span style="font-size:11.0pt;"> </span></li></ul>
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