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<DIV>Well setting aside the obvious groundwater issues, I'm wondering what
thoughts are on solids/airborne contamination threats could be. Lets
safely assume that "watering" is done during dry periods (often warm in theory),
would potential pharmaceuticals sufficiently settle out of the water and bind to
the surface in addition to settling into the soil and groundwater system, thus
creating a potential touch exposure and also becoming airborne
thus contaminating a much greater area.</DIV>
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<DIV>I realize the potential volume isn't huge but then again no telling what
new creations can come from the chemical world.</DIV>
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<DIV>Tom Badrick</DIV>
<DIV>Badrick Consulting</DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 2/18/2010 7:14:40 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
tbuckner@ibiblio.org writes:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>Given
all the discussion on excretion rates of pharmaceuticals, the question I have
is whether it is now, or ever will be possible, to handle these drugs during
the wastewater treatment process. In my community, the local water authority
is preparing to sell 'reclaimed water' (ie., that which has not been subjected
to the final treatment phase of dispersion) for irrigation purposes to a local
school. I'm shuddering to think of children rolling around in a gumbo of drugs
that we can neither identify or have any possibility of
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