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News – Health: Wonderfontein report rejected

Wonderfontein report rejected
iol September 19 2008 An anti-nuclear pressure group has rejected an official report that radioactive mining waste in the catchment of Gauteng’s Wonderfontein Spruit poses no risk to the public.

The Pelindaba Working Group said on Friday independent academic reports indicated that radiotoxic contamination from 120 years of mining activities around the catchment had in fact seeped into underground water systems.

“As such it poses a massive health risk to an extremely wide area, to the Vaal Dam system in the south and the Hartbeespoort Dam system in the north,” it said in a statement.

“Hundreds of thousands of people are reliant upon this water”.

The group said authorities had not acknowledged any of the letters it sent asking that borehole water be tested.

News – Health: Wonderfontein report rejected

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September 20, 2008 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | environment