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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 11:37:44 EDT
From: dcatbird37@...
Subject: ??? SWNAS Basewide Watershed Assessment ???

Hi all.

Can anyone tell me if Joe Public is allowed access to using the
EQuIS
site characterization software or reports being generated through that
process?

I had hoped the MDPH might get involved in this Watershed
Assessment
stuff, but I've recently been told that the geographical data that
they've
collected can't be shared with me for Privacy Act reasons.

In attending their meetings, i've learned that they agree with me
on
the primary importance of plotting geographical data, but my hope to
plot
streams, runways, taxi ways, warm-up zones, contaminated sites, and
their
professionally collected disease incidence as part of the Basewide
Watershed
Assessment, using a tool like what I stumbled upon yesterday as EQuIS,
will be
politically off limits to poor old Joe and his pals...

Seems as if I'll have to build my own case, unless any of you
guys can
help me out.

With all the concerns and professional efforts being spent on
Manganese
as late this EQuIS software( Integrated Environmental Site
Characterization
), or something like it, could prove paramount in discovering
something of
real importance currently hiding here. I'm sure you guys know about
the Jacobs
Engineering report released over the summer citing the Manganese
concerns at
Mass Military Reservation on the Cape.
You may not know about Harvards ongoing study at the Tar Creek
Superfund site, the work being done at Wake Forest and other
institutions regarding
Manganese bioaccumulation and the oxidative damage it causes to DNA,
or the
study in Bangledesh linking dissolved Manganese and children's
decreased
intellectual function.

It's time the government attempt to remedy the health problems
that
industry has unleashed on humanity and our environment. Noone knew the
harm
that Manganese additives to jet fuel, and now automobile gasoline, but
now we
are learning.

I believe we owe it to God and society to pull out all the
stops, and
get by the politics that corrupt the environmental protection
process.We need
to help orchestrate what is right.

Spending the time and resources to do this Basewide Watershed
Assessment the right way is going to save money for our government in
the long run,
not to mention the human suffering that the use of sound science would
dispel.

I'm going to try to get to the RAB meeting next week, but it's
not
easy for me, harder still for my bad-backed buddy Mr. Bromberg, who
shouldn't be
lifting me in and out of his truck.

I would still be happy if the next time you're down here, that
you
might stop by for lunch. I've got a number of concerns, and ideas I
believe
would represent valid considerations for your Watershed Assessment.

thanks for listening
again,
dave wilmot

(781-878-4110