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>8/27/97 Denver Post
Denver and the West section:

>Jefferson County
>High pollution levels found

>Retests on water from Walnut Creek which flows from Rocky Flats
confirm
>elevated levels of plutonium in the creek
said a spokeswoman for the
>clean-up of the fomrer nuclear weaopns manufacturing plant.
>
>Earlier tests showed concentrations of plutonium three times accepted levels.
>Tests have begun on sediments in the creek and additional monitoring stations
>have been set up in an effort to find the source of the plutonium
said
>Jennifer Thompson
spokeswoman for Kaiser-Hill
prime contractor for the
>cleanup.
>
>Scientists from both the state health department and the Environmetnal
>Protection Agency said the levels
while higher than normal
were not a
>health concern because the creek isn't used as a drinking supply. Data from
>the sediment tests as sell as the regularly scheduled monthly test on the
>creek should be available by mid-September
Thompson said.

*All waters come together at some point in time*
The current out for agencies caught well above their necks in serious
water pollutionis to state that nobody uses this as a supply for
drinking water.  But isn't it clear that water travels and that at some
point in time
being finite
it all commingles?  This attitude of it not
being currently used for a drinking water source is extremely short
sighted.  Here in Indiana the slick industry lawyers are sectioning off
the waters as if they are not joined.  They are using the tactic of
divide and conquer
making the regs so powerless that nothing but poison
will be left by the time industry is done with it.  Play now pay later.

*Other creatures use the water besides humans*
To think that water only has importance to humans is quite a strange
view.  Water passes through other creatures and reaches us...without
question.  Without water we are nothing.  We're at the most susceptible
point in the chain
the top.  Everything comes to us at the top

multiplied and wrapped in a tidy package for us to consume.  We aren't
King because we are at the top.

If the EPA and other so-called scientists are reading this then please
begin to take a more holistic approach in how you think about yourself
and your actual connection to the earth rather than remaining in the
little boxes you've carved out for your fantasies to take place.

We are all one with the earth and it's other inhabitants.  What happens
to them happens to us...without question.

Thank you

Paul
--
Paul Goettlich
Hoosier Environmental Council
gottlich@sbt.infi.net  http://www.envirolink.org/orgs/hecweb/