Reply #4: For those who are too lazy to follow your link ...

[Nihil]

... here are some extracts to enlighten them ...

> According to the New Jersey DEP, about 200,000 private wells draw water
> from the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer.
> DEP estimates that about 500,000 people drink water from those wells.


> In addition to the private wells, some municipal water authorities in
> South Jersey draw water from the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer. They "mix"
> the aquifer water with water from other sources to lower the percentage
> of radium in drinking water.
> Federal officials point out that such "mixing" does not eliminate radium
> from the water, but does bring it within acceptable EPA standards.


> The USGS found that the radium content in the Kirkwood-Cohansey aquifer
> ranged from 0 to 30.3 picocuries per liter of water
> The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set a limit of 5 picocuries
> per liter of water as the maximum amount of radium allowed in drinking water.
> In interviews, EPA officials in Washington said no amount of radium is safe
> to ingest and that a limit of 5 was set because of "economic considerations."
> "We set 5 for practical reasons and because of the cost of treatment," said
> David Huber, the EPA's national radium expert.
> The EPA says that at 5 picocuries, one in 10,000 adults who drink the water
> over their lifetime risks fatal cancer. As the amount of radium increases,
> so does the risk factor, officials said.


I trust that the effects of the above are subtracted from any observed increase
in cancer rates before any nuclear power other source is blamed ...

Oh, BTW, the following can't be true or it would make too many people's heads
explode ...
> The study also found that the radium, which occurs naturally, gets into the
> water because of pollution from fertilizer and lime used on residential and
> agricultural land. When chemicals from the fertilizers seep into the aquifer,
> they help move radium deposits into the water, according to the USGS.

I now return readers to the routine anti-nuclear rants.