Reply #105: i don't like the fact you don't have recent (continual) data...

[abqmufc]

March 17, 18, 19 seem to be the sample dates of rainwater. Those dates make me wonder if they are 'good' days to take samples. Good = Those rainfall samples taken during days which air quality modeling would have calculated a high(er) level of radiation is likely due to spikes previously being detected in the air at the site in Japan. Modeling can determine the day prevailing winds would bring a radiation spike to the San Francisco area (where these samples listed where taken). EPA (and others) act like there is no way to model a very concise method to take both air quality and water quality samples.

We have the modeling ability to pinpoint the trajectory of high radiation releases into the atmosphere. We can takes those trajectories of air borne releases and determine where they might fall back to the ground via rainfall. I've used EPA backward trajectory modeling programs to detect where a high source of Ozone, Mercury, and other air toxins came from (point-source) while working with Tribal Air Quality programs. Yet nobody is talking about such models in the United States. Here is an article on Backward Trajectory as used by American Indian Tribes.
http://www4.nau.edu/itep/air/docs/NVFall_05.pdf


I'd also love to see daily rainfall samples from Oregon and Alaska. It seems the Pacific Northwest has been the target of most radiation plumes according to the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) modeling (if those models are indeed real). I know that Portland, OR saw record rainfall in the month of March. Daily radiation samples are what is needed to determine what concern may exist for direct human exposure, as well as, contamination of any agriculture. Those daily samples should be dry deposition (air quality samples) as well as wet deposition (rain water, snow). To me, air quality modeling like that of NILU

If this is a valid model, then we know where to take rain samples.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wJninXiYIM


I wonder if radioactive waste can somehow latch onto evaporating water molecules from the ocean and then fall back onto land as rainfall?