Reply #9: Perchlorate contamination elsewhere

[Tansy_Gold]

We have it in Arizona, too.

And a huge development consortium -- of whom Jerry Colangelo, owner of the Phoenix Suns, AZ Diamondbacks, etc., is major partner -- has within the past year advanced plans to develop a HUMONGOUS tract of land sitting on top of one of the largest untapped aquifers in the state, if not the entire country. They want to build a "community" of some half-million residents in the middle of the desert, with twenty-plus golf courses all watered from this aquifer.

They did no hydrology studies to determine the effects of pumping millions of gallons of water daily from this aquifer, but after a local citizens group (funded by Toyota, whose proving ground lies on top of the aquifer and could be impacted by significant depletion) raised a ruckus about it, Colangelo personally promised to fund such a study prior to any actual development.

As this area of the country and of Arizona continues to mushroom with housing developments -- and golf courses -- that suck the water out of the ground, I expect to see stories about vast sinkholes gobbling up houses, dairy farms, even mountains??????

Please pray that such a sinkhole doesn't open beneath the house of


Tansy Gold