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You are invited to join the Everett Safe Water Yahoo Group.

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If you join, you are under no obligation to attend Everett City Council meetings, Snohomish County Council meetings, Snohomish Health District meetings and speak up, but we hope you will anyway, and that you will invite others, and invite others to join this Yahoo group.

The Everett City Council should institute a moratorium on drinking water fluoridation and then do further studies. Not the other way around.

See:  http://fluoride-class-action.com/press-releases.

I am setting up this Everett Safe Water Yahoo group to make it easier for Everett safe water people to get organized. I want the people of Everett to be able to stand on their own and help themselves. This Yahoo group will be a very helpful tool.

To subscribe send an email to: EverettSafeWater-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

To post a message or question send an email to: EverettSafeWater@yahoogroups.com

This Yahoo group is intended to be a way to announce upcoming meetings and share ideas about how to spread the word throughout the city.

My vision of Everett Safe Water is this: The group will become self motivating and carry on even when I am not working to push things forward.

My vision of Everett Safe Water is that two or three leaders will arise who will see to it that there will be someone speaking every week to the City Council and who will invite people.

The City Council meets on Wednesdays at 6:30, except that the meeting on the fourth Wednesday of the month takes place at noon. The address is 3002 Wetmore Avenue in downtown Everett.

I have invited some people to join who are from out of the Everett area who can help you if you have technical questions.

 

Proof of Lead in Everett Water

November 16th, 2011 No comments

WASHINGTON ACTION FOR SAFE WATER
PO Box 2276, Lynnwood, Washington  98036-2276
Telephone 425-
771-1110
James@WashingtonSafeWater.com

November 16, 2011

Audio Recording

The last time I addressed the Everett City Council, I mentioned, as I frequently do, that there is lead in the silicofluoride added to Everett drinking water and that silicofluoride leaches lead from pipes.

Council member Jeff Moore took exception and said that I should not compare Seattle’s problem with lead in schools with Everett.  He said that Everett schools had taken care of the lead problem.

In my efforts to inform the Everett City Council about the lead-arsenic-silicofluoride problem, I have noted that Council members just do not believe that their water contains lead – or arsenic. Council Member Paul Roberts, formerly a director of the Marysville Water District, has stated that Everett had the best water in the world, implying that it contains no lead or arsenic impurities.

So I looked through the documents returned to me in response to my 2008 Request for Documents.

I handed out copies of this particular document to the Council members, a 2006 water quality report, one of many documents which show there is up to .063 ppm lead in Everett drinking water, that is 63 ppb. See the item circled. Bear in mind that the same document shows that the EPA MCL – Maximum Contaminant Level – is 15 ppb.

Note also the information in footnote number 3. This lead level is measured at “178 consumer taps”. This information does not tell us the age of the houses and buildings in which these consumer taps are located.

A NSF letter from 2000 says that there can be up to 1.6 ppb lead in water after the silicofluoride is dilution 240,000 times to get the fluoride level down to 1 ppm. A 2008 NSF Fluoride Fact Sheet says the maximum is only .6 ppb. NSF Fact Sheets are updated only every three or four years. There has not been a new one since 2008.

Even if Everett has replaced all the lead bearing brass and galvanized pipes from its schools and all the brass fittings, it has not solved the problem. That is because there are still lead bearing pipes and fittings in homes, apartments, office buildings, commercial buildings, and churches. The typical lead level in brass pipes is 8.0% while for pipes installed before 1986 the level can be up to 30%.

Unless Everett is going to pay to replace all lead bearing pipe in all homes, apartments, office buildings, commercial buildings, and churches, it has not solved the lead problem in drinking water.

Further, Everett is failing to follow federal law, which requires that it give notice to water consumers of lead content in their water.

Each owner or operator of a public water system shall identify and provide notice to persons that may be affected by lead contamination of their drinking water where such contamination results from either or both of the following:
(i) The lead content in the construction materials of the public water distribution system.
(ii) Corrosivity of the water supply sufficient to cause leaching of lead.
The notice shall be provided in such manner and form as may be reasonably required by the Administrator. Notice under this paragraph shall be provided notwithstanding the absence of a violation of any national drinking water standard.
Everett is ignoring the lead notice law.
Everett is also endangering the health of its citizens. The simple solution to the lead problem is to quit fluoridating. Lead levels in water will drop and lead levels in blood will drop.