"Texas Drinking Water Makes Pipes And Plumbing Radioactive"
"HOUSTON -- Radiation has contaminated the underground pipes,
water tanks, and plumbing that provide drinking water for much
of Central Texas and the famed Texas Hill Country, according to
concerned city officials in the region who have tested the pipes
with Geiger counters. According to local officials, the
contamination comes from years of exposure to drinking water
that already tests over federal legal limits for radioactive
radium. Of even more concern, they say, is that any water
quality testing is done before the water runs through the
contaminated pipes that could be adding even more radiation.
'It’s a serious concern,' City of Brady Manager James Minor
said. 'These pipes have so much radioactivity in them, metal
recycling places refer to them as they’re "hot."'"Source: KHOU,
05/19/2011