Denise Johnson went to her first water board meeting last month. I've been attending for a year. She asked the water board to go back to chlorine. She claims to be an expert on chloramine because she fainted in the shower when it was first put in the water. It's been in Fremont's water since 1992 and I've seen and lived what this poison has done to the residents and the corrosion of the pipes. I joined Dr. Winn Parker and Michele Parazzo when I heard them speaking at the Millbrae City Council. Many have joined our group and Denise got the start of her health research from Dr. Parker.
She seemed to have missed that chlorine causes breast, colon, bladder and stomach cancer and reproduction malfunction. Dr. June Weintraub had a slide show on chlorine side effects at a San Mateo homeowners meeting I attended. Dr. Weintraub claimed the PUC added ammonia to strengthen the chlorine, making it safe to drink. Chloramine makes a disinfectant byproduct NDMA causes more cancer. The health officials claimed it was safe. My sister and I went to the EPA toxicology class in June, where they showed the rat studies on chloramine caused thyroid, colon and bladder cancer, liver and kidney failure, reproduction malfunction and DNA cell damage. The study wasn't very lengthy. Is this what the heath officials based their safe decision on?
This was a cheap disinfectant to delay the replacement of the pipes. Dr. Parker told the water board a year ago it would be $440 million to use alternative technology. This would save lives and the new pipes wouldn't corrode as much. They thought that was too much. Susan Leal, head of PUC, asked for $700 million more, three new employees at $198,000 a year a piece, plus benefits. That was OK. She spent $5 million on a foot trail around a reservoir in San Francisco while Fremont has a water tunnel they haven't checked in 80 years, and won't be until 2007. This woman should be replaced. Dr. Parker's initiative for the people to have the right to vote on the disinfectant is imperative.
The pipes are supposed to be started in June 2006. Are they waiting for an earthquake to get a FEMA loan to replace the pipes?
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