New Jersey drinking water to remain toxic

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http://www.peer.org/news/news_id.php?row_id=1341


TIGHTER NEW JERSEY DRINKING WATER STANDARDS IN OBLIVION —

Drinking Water Institute Chair Resigns in Frustration; Successor to be Announced


Trenton — A five-year effort to update limits on more than 30 contaminants commonly found in New Jersey’s drinking water appears to be doomed by the anti-regulatory stance of the Christie administration, according to Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). As a result, New Jersey residents will continue to be exposed to chemicals ranging from benzene to formaldehyde in amounts that its expert Drinking Water Quality Institute (DWQI) has found unsafe.

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One of the most worrisome findings of the DWQI was the need to enact new very strict limits on highly toxic contaminants, such as 1,2,3- trichloropropane, about which the DWQI stated:

“1,2,3-TCP is DNA-reactive, clearly genotoxic and mutagenic, caused tumors in a number of tissues in both the rat and the mouse, and metastatic forestomach tumors were found in variety of locations.”

In February 2010, the longtime Chair of the DWQI, Dr. Mark Robson of Rutgers University, resigned when it became clear that the DEP under outgoing Gov. Corzine would not act on the DWQI’s March 2009 recommendations. His successor will presumably be announced at the upcoming DWQI meeting this Friday, May 7. That meeting, the first under Christie, may also reveal the future of the DWQI itself.

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“The anti-regulatory rhetoric of the Christie administration will continue to trip them up, just as it did with perchlorate,” Wolfe added. “There is no way around the fact that protecting our drinking water from growing chemical contamination necessitates government action.”
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[NJmaverick]

1. Chris Christie is one evil son of a bitch so I am not surprised he is trying to kill off people

with dangerous water. In his sick warped and twisted mind the only people that will suffer are poor people who can't buy bottled water (and they just vote Democratic so he has no reason to care).