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Hardly trivia, Ron. My little town (7,000 folks) in the middle of Kansas had
so much nitrate in the ground water, we had to install a reveerse osmosis
filtration system for the entire city water system.
John Dendy
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> From: Ron May [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2002 1:13 AM
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> Subject: Re: Don't drink the water or eat the produce
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> You might be interested to know the great fear sanitarians have for sewage
> effluent in drinking water is from the nitrates, which build up in that
> kind of soil. No adults have been sickened by nitrates, but there is a
> well documented case of babies dying from consumption of nitrates in the
> 1920s and that case is the basis for laws requiring testing of groundwater
> prior to installing well heads. I got this informative piece of trivia
> from numerous County of San Diego sanitarians that I worked alongside
> during my career there.
>
> Ron May
> Legacy 106, Inc.
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