PEACE RIVER CONTAMINATED WITH POISONS

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CHARLEY UPDATE: PEACE RIVER CONTAMINATED

WITH POISONS

 

 

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At first, we thought the dead fish floating downstream in the Peace

River were a result of Hurricane Charley. But at night, we saw the

water glow from our flashlights and realized our worst fears... the

river was full of phosphates. We had been using the river water for

bathing since Saturday morning. Obviously, we no longer go near the

river that flows not far from our doorsteps.

 

The Peace River begins in central Florida and flows south 105 miles to

the Charlotte Harbor Estuary. The Peace River is an important source of

Florida’s drinking water, supplying about 6 million gallons of drinking

water every day to 4 counties along the Southwest Coast of Florida,

basically those areas now devastated by Hurricane Charley.

 

To get at the rich deposits of phosphate in the Peace River watershed,

since the 1890's, phosphate mining companies have been boring and

scraping out huge pits that reach thousands of acres in size. One

by-product of the extraction process is clay which is stored in

settling ponds. Sometimes, the man-made earthen dams of these clay

ponds collapse sending uranium and radium contaminated waste clay into

the river which then suffocates fish, flora, and fauna. It also kills

the animals depending on that water and flora for survival.

 

In 1971, a settling pond spill turned Charlotte Harbor “to chocolate

milk” according to newspaper accounts at the time. They estimated there

were 3 million dead fish back then. In the past, clay slime spills have

prevented the Peace River Manasota Water Supply Authority from using

river flows for drinking water, forcing counties to seek water supplies

elsewhere or rely on stored supplies.

 

Regardless of any future debunker reports that may attempt to rebuff

this article, have no doubt or question that the Peace River is - at

this very moment - highly contaminated. All the fish are dead from

Arcadia to Charlotte Harbor. The water coming down-stream is muddy and

glows at night when flashlights shine on it. The next 2 weeks will

prove this beyond any doubt as animals and fowl begin to die after

eating the contaminated river fauna and drinking the water. It has

happened before. In the future, anyone who drinks water processed from

the Peace River, throughout 4 Florida Counties, will be drinking

uranium and radium contaminated water. The effects are said to be no

different than the depleted uranium in Iraq.

 

The ironic part of this is that the mining companies have insisted for

years that this could never happen. We the people have fought the

Florida State environmental permits that have been granted to these

foreign owned mining companies, but we have lost every objection we

made to protect our environment and drinking water. Few know that the

majority of the phosphate fertilizers processed from the Peace River

mining sites are sent to China.

 

Michael Edward