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Sinkhole causes 980 million litres of radioactive water to leak into Florida aquifer
The Telegraph ^ | 17 SEPTEMBER 2016 | Chris Graham

Posted on 09/16/2016 6:52:26 PM PDT by Rabin

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To: Rabin; proud American in Canada
OMG. This sounds incredibly bad. How dangerous is it for the people? What area does the aquifer serve?

Sorry about the huge graphic, but it needs to be this size to read the detail.

PLEASE READ THE CHART BEFORE PANICKING!

And Yes, we are all gonna DIE!... sometime in the net 50 to 100 years, give or take a few.


21 posted on 09/16/2016 7:28:59 PM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: Steely Tom

‘The MSM will be playing “find the Republican”... ‘
That’s a good one!


22 posted on 09/16/2016 7:33:24 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: dangus

Youngest grandson made an interesting comment regarding contamination of water and liberals, saying that libs probably refuse to acknowledge that birds pee and poop when flying over any water but wait to take care of their chores until they are over a bird sanctuary.


23 posted on 09/16/2016 7:44:36 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: proud American in Canada

This and the colorodo contaminated mine water that polluted the river supplying many towns on the river. This is a play out of the agenda 21 playbook. Poison the water supply and force the population into controllable urban areas. We are on the downward spiral hang on


24 posted on 09/16/2016 7:55:30 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Rabin

Just wonder how they are going to spin it so the EPA can say it was preventable and fine them billions.


25 posted on 09/16/2016 7:59:18 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The Mofia is a private crime family; whereas, the DOJ is the gov't's political crime family.)
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To: Rabin

Who was the geologist that gave the okay for this
project?


26 posted on 09/16/2016 8:00:48 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: Rabin

The article says the sinkhole is in Mulberry, FL. I drove through Mulberry once, back around 1990. There is so much phosphate mining between Bartow and Mulberry, that the landscape looks like the moon, not like Florida.


27 posted on 09/16/2016 8:07:10 PM PDT by Berosus (I wish I had as much faith in God as liberals have in government.)
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To: Larry Lucido

[OMG.]

Are you aware you are taking the LORD’S Name in vain whenever You use that?


28 posted on 09/16/2016 8:07:37 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: Rabin

IIRC the radioactivity comes from Radium in the phosphate.


29 posted on 09/16/2016 8:14:42 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: BwanaNdege

OMG we are all going to die just like 3 mile island. Which by the way released LESS radiation than you get from a standard dental x-ray.


30 posted on 09/16/2016 8:42:24 PM PDT by eyeamok (destruction of government records.)
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To: Rabin

Eat two bananas and then stay away from any Geiger counters.


31 posted on 09/16/2016 8:51:13 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: Rabin

This is 3 miles from my house . i have well water oh boy


32 posted on 09/16/2016 9:08:40 PM PDT by Donnafrflorida (Thru Him all things are possible.)
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IF you draw your well water from a DEEP well that is near the bottom of the local aquifer, it is possible you might detect a slight flavor difference (it will taste better than normal.) As likely only industrial wells would ever be drilled that deep and most residential wells are fed off of subsurface springs, I would say you'd not be able to detect the slightest difference even if your property was a couple hundred feet from the sinkhole.

The total semi-radiative liquid is being reported as 980000000 litres, which translates to 784 acre feet of water - That would have had to have been some pond, but certainly possible from industrial applications. The average family would use about half an acre foot of water a year, the total amount of water we're talking about would be what 6k people would consume in the average year.

As the majority of the material is far heavier than natural water, it's doubtful that anything would be detectable by even the most sensitive equipment more than a mile away from the site.

33 posted on 09/16/2016 10:13:32 PM PDT by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Vinnie
IIRC the radioactivity comes from Radium in the phosphate.

You recall correctly.

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf60156a002?journalCode=jafcau

Regards,

34 posted on 09/17/2016 12:35:31 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Or that creek in Colorado.


35 posted on 09/17/2016 3:35:21 AM PDT by jch10 (Stand strong! we have a country to save!)
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To: jch10

It’s time to depopulate Florida! Load the boats with all your goodies inc golf carts and head for Cuba. Massive takeover of the island by retired Americans will drive the bad guys out.

Give your boats to the Cubans so they can go work in Floria to pay the SS benefits of the elderly who now reside in Florida.


36 posted on 09/17/2016 6:06:03 AM PDT by oldasrocks (rump)
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To: eyeamok

Airline flight crews receive an average annual dose of radiation which is higher than that received annually by most nuclear power plant workers.

It is terrible! In the next 120 years, 100% of the population alive now and exposed to these horrors will DIE!


37 posted on 09/17/2016 9:21:47 AM PDT by BwanaNdege
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To: proud American in Canada
The plant is in their mining areas... so far the water is still good (as good as any Florida water is, I hate the water here...Hartford, CT water is better).

The New Wales plant is miles from any homes...I believe

38 posted on 09/17/2016 4:53:21 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The RELIGION of PEDOPHILIA...)
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To: proud American in Canada

About 2 years ago that sinkhole killed the man sleeping...


39 posted on 09/17/2016 4:54:19 PM PDT by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The RELIGION of PEDOPHILIA...)
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To: ConservaTeen

We MUST begin by registering ALL sinkholes, and limiting their capacity!!!!


40 posted on 09/17/2016 6:14:36 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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