Council goes to exteme lengths ...

Another Letter to the Editor, the Chronicle:

Council goes to extreme lengths

"Nod from doctors" (TC, 3/2) shows the council will go to extreme lengths to cajole support for their drinking water using a presentation they paid $10,000 to CH2M Hill to review.

I had a home presentation from Alan Kleinschmidt, Kev Flanagan and Leith Boully. What they don't make clear when they make the presentation is that the water returning to Cooby Dam is not pure water.

According to the council's submission to the National Water Commission it contains at least 30 milligrams per litre of dissolved solids.

The local Pure H20 campaign is dangerously deceptive.

These solids can be any substance that exists in raw sewage regardless of size.

The issue isn't whether someone is going to get diarrhoea from drinking the water, it is that scientists agree that the long-term effect of ingesting minute traces of emerging chemicals could be catastrophic on future generations.

Los Angeles is at present horrified by traces of pharmaceuticals in their water supply after treated effluent spent seven years percolating through sand aquifers back to the bores.

SM
Toowoomba