Military linked to Cape water taint, Bourne shuts wells, seeks new supply

BOURNE - A chemical used in military explosives has contaminated the drinking water for thousands of people in this town, providing the first clear evidence that pollution from years of training with grenades and rockets at the Massachusetts Military Reservation is now seeping into Cape Cod's underground water supply.

This is our worst nightmare come true,'' said Tom Cambareri, water resource program manager for the Cape Cod Commission

The Cape Cod Commission is the absolute worst example of jack-booted enviro-thugs to ever have existed. They've been ruling Cape Cod with an iron fist since they bubbled up from the third ring of hell.

They're expert at fomenting panic based on junk science.

Still, no one is quite sure how much perchlorate is too much in drinking water. National EPA guidelines suggests a range from 4 to 18 parts per billion may be safe, but EPA is now deciding whether to drop the limit to as low as one part per billion.

No one's sure, but let's drop the limit to a scientifically insignificant amount, and hope no one notices when we proceed on this basis.

Some days, the perchlorate shows up in the wells, some days it doesn't. Workers are now busy drilling test wells to look for any more signs of the chemical and how it is moving.

They can barely even detect the stuff, but hey - it's for the children, blah, blah, blah.

It's spreading like a cancer out there,'' said Marks as he prepared to go to Washington yesterday.

What a moron. What's spreading? The stuff you can barely detect in amounts so small as to be insignificant? But on the bright side, there's all that federal grant money to be thrown at your department, with a nice little extra something in your pay envelope, eh Commissar Marks?

Re:"..''We're really worried,'' Marks said. ''We have summer months coming and going to drastic conditions. We can't think this is going to go away. We have to have some game plan in place."

More "planning." Read, hire more of my jobless enviro friends to shuffle more papers, drive 4wd SUV, late on Mondays, eairly leave friday, my 20 inch monitor is causing eye strain jobs.

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