- GOLD COAST RESIDENTS KEPT IN THE DARK - AS BLACKOUT ON ALL WATER ISSUES CONTINUES . VITAL HEALTH NEWS ABSENT FROM LOCAL PRINT . Vital information is being withheld from the people of the Gold Coast as locals have to rely on the THE AUSTRALIAN & THE SUNDAY MAIL to report on perhaps the Greatest Health Crisis ever faced in Australia, that being the introduction of both Recycled Sewage, Hospital and Industrial Waste as well as S7 Poison Toxic Waste Sodium Fluorosilic Acid simultaneously. The people are being deliberately not told of the fate that lies ahead if this Insanity is permitted to proceed. According to Jack O’Neil, independent researcher, local reporters have been instructed to STOP writing about Water. Quote “We only write about happy things”. The fact that all workers at Pimpama were exposed to recycled Sewage water not fit for human consumption was not reported in any local paper. See article below. Also see articles pertaining to local matters from The Australian.
Call The paper Managers and ASK WHY ! - or - Buy The Australian. Gold Coast Bulletin 5584 2000 - Gold Coast Sun 5597 1999 . ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Unfit Water Recycled by Paul Weston (Sunday Mail Nov 9, 2008) . An Investigation has been launched into how recycled water, not fit for drinking, became supplied to taps, showers, and water appliances at the Gold Coast’s Pimpama treatment plant. The Sunday Mail has obtained a “high importance” email from Gold Coast Water director Richard Went sent to staff about the health scare. Council sources late yesterday said Gold Coast Water staff were visiting their doctors after learning they had been drinking the water since September. “We know of one who is sick. They’re going to their doctors. This is so wrong, were going to be drinking this stuff”, the source said.” If they get this small thing mucked up, what are they going to do to the rest of us when recycled water is introduced?” Gold Coast Mayor Ron Clarke yesterday said he could understand the concerns, but extra checks would be made once recycled water was introduced into southeast Queensland’s $ 9 billion dollar water grid. Cr Clarke said the cause of the Pimpama incident was being determined, but it appeared to have occurred after an apprentice mixed up waste-water lines directed into the plant. About 200 employees visiting the facility and 40 staffers working in the control room may have drunk water not fit for human consumption. “We’re contacting all the staff. Three had some queasiness and they still went to work and thought nothing of it” Cr Clarke said. “Initial investigations indicated the recycled water was supplied into the office building from early September until it was subsequently disconnected today” Mr Went said in an email to staff on Friday. He said Gold Coast Water Watch had acted quickly to switch off the faulty supply and Queensland Health was informed. oooooooooooEND ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
RECYCLED WATER - EXPERTS ARGUING OVER SAFETY For the information of Queensland MPs, Councillors, Media and Public Australian National University Emeritus Professor, Patrick Troy, an authority on water infrastructure, on the 29th October was widely reported (The Australian newspaper, Channel 7, 9 ,10 Television news and on radio) with advice that it was not possible to prevent potentially harmful organisations from entering southeast Queensland's water supply when recycled sewage is added to it in February. The Courier Mail, however, appears to have not reported on this issue. Professor Paul Greenfield, chair of the Queensland Water Commission Committee which advised the Queensland Government to proceed with the recycled water project, has rejected suggestions that the practice is unsafe. Professor Greenfield has stated that Peroxide and UV light will destroy all organic material ( presumably that escapes through membranes ) but no mention of inorganic compounds was reported. The Queensland Water Commission has in the past stated - there are 7 safety barriers and the first barrier is that no Hospital and Industrial waste goes into the sewerage system - this has been changed to "residential / industrial source control including hospital waste" However, the very first barrier one is a barrier in name only, there is no actual control over hospital and industrial waste entering the sewerage system because hospitals and industrial areas do not have separate reticulation systems. Business owners in Industrial areas can purchase Trade Waste certificates to dispose of industrial wastes to sewers. There is no control over what happens in residential premises, there is no government monitoring of domestic sinks and toilets and there is no mechanical barrier to prevent any chemical substance ( eg expired drugs ) from entering sewerage. On 4BC Radio (Thursday 23rd Oct am) Premier Anna Bligh said that hospital waste was required by law to be treated to " a certain level " . Investigative journalists and others are urged to contact their local hospitals to find out what this " treatment " entails. They will find that the " treatment " is that part of the waste stream (almost certainly not toilet waste) goes through a grease trap. The rate of cancer is very high and increasing and many patients in hospitals are receiving cytotoxic drugs which will be excreted from the body in urine, faeces and vomit, which then enters the sewerage system via hospital toilets. It would be extremely unlikely that a grease trap would be able to remove cytotoxic drugs, and other chemicals such as antibiotics from the waste stream. The presence of large amounts of excreted antibiotics in infectious Hospital waste streams gives great concern for the evolution of Super-bugs and Professor Troy's advice should be noted Many cancer sufferers receive Chemotherapy as Oncology Outpatients in chairs ( virtual beds ) and after treatment, return home, with the result that cytotoxic enter sewerage via domestic toilets. Queensland Health does not currently know what actually goes into the sewerage system from Hospitals, but recent information from a public Hospital source is that the Qld govt is paying for a privately contracted survey to try and find out. On the 22nd Oct a spokesman from the Deputy Premiers Office phoned Radio 4BC and claimed the Labor government went to the last election and was voted in with recycled water clearly on the agenda. He said people had voted for it. This has been pointed out by the radio host as being incorrect http://www.4bc.com.au/blogs/michael-smith-blog/water-is-important/20081023-5718.html "We are being conned. The Labor Party did not go to the election with recycled drinking water on the agenda. Peter Beattie was emphatic before the last election. On Friday 2 June 2006 the Labor government released a statement which said "Premier Peter Beattie and the Minister for Water, Henry Palaszczuk said today that it was not government policy to place recycled water into dams across Queensland." Premier Bligh stated Oct 29th 2008 " there will be no going back " . Indeed, there can be no going back, the pipes are in the ground, the Queensland Tax payer has been committed to having to pay for the Water Grid (9 Billion dollars plus interest) for many years into the future. There is a solution however, to minimise risk to the population of SE Qld. Recycled water is now being used to guarantee supply for Swanbank and Tarong power stations. A short spur pipeline line of only 6 kms is needed to place water in Atkinson Dam and this water can be used to guarantee water supplies for one of Queensland most important agricultural areas. In Singapore recycled water is added into a small reservoir that is separate to the domestic supply. Only 1% of the Singapore domestic supply is comprised of recycled water. With only 1% added, it is obvious that recycled water is not needed to replenish the Singapore water supply, it does however assist the marketing of hugely expensive Reverse Osmosis systems and the promotion of the concept of placing recycled water into domestic water supplies. The deliberate extensive addition of recycled water to domestic supplies as planned by the current Premier, is a world first. If there are accidents, mishaps or cover-ups, it could become a world worst. There are no safety studies that the Government can put forward, because there are no comparable situations. The Liberal National Party ( LNP ) has maintained that adding recycled sewage to our drinking water supplies is an Armageddon solution, this was first admitted by Peter Beattie. The words sewage and sewerage have almost been removed from the Queensland Media's vocabulary, substituted by the euphemous phrase " purified recycled water " by promoters and sections of the media that will not report any negative stories. This is helping keep the public in the dark about where their water will be coming from. The LNP as an alternative future government, is urged to help make the public aware that their drinking water under a Labor government, will be sourced from sewerage treatment plants. If the LNP remains committed to their policy that recycled water should not be added to domestic supplies, and makes it an election issue, it should be a winner to them. Recycled water for industry? Great idea! Recycled sewage water for human consumption? Who came up with this insanity ? This message authorised by M Haines a spokeperson for Queenslanders For Safe Water ( Air and Food ) Inc media contact mob 0418 777 112
Professor Paul Greenfield,
Recycled mix may be 50:50 February 03, 2007 12:00am SOUTHEAST Queensland could have the highest percentage of recycled water in its drinking supply of any place in the world if the drought continues. If Brisbane's dams are almost empty when the recycled water pipeline comes on line late next year, all that would be left in the dam would be a 50-50 mix of desalinated and recycled water. The chairman of the Water Commission's recycled water advisory panel, University of Queensland professor Paul Greenfield, said he wasn't aware of a higher recycled water concentration anywhere. "It's a high percentage, but the water is very pure. With the dam levels very low, that's an inevitability that we have to face," he said. The Government intends to pump up to 120 million litres of recycled water a day into the Wivenhoe Dam in December 2008. The next month, 125 million litres a day of desalinated water would be pumped from Tugun, on the Gold Coast. By then, Wivenhoe, Somerset and North Pine dams might be down to 5 per cent of capacity Courier Mail .com.au http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,21160419-3102,00.html
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