Pollution is a detriment to our quality of life as humans and knows no boundaries. We strive to help individuals and other communities who are facing similar issues by providing educational support, sharing of resources, and mentorship to ensure that others maintain or obtain clean and health communities.
We strive to be of service to other communities in the Southwestern Pennsylvania region to help them better protect themselves from unconventional gas development and its associated infrastructure.
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What are radionuclides and how do they get into drinking water?
Radionuclides are naturally-occurring radioactive minerals that are occasionally present in bedrock, along with other minerals such as iron, arsenic, calcium, and silica. As ground water moves through fractures in bedrock that contains the mineral deposits, radioactive minerals can leach out into the groundwater system. Radionuclides can dissolve easily in water. The principal radionuclides that we are concerned about
are radium, uranium, and radon gas. Radon
gas is produced from the natural radioactive breakdown of uranium and radium.
Bedrock wells (often called artesian or drilled) may contain elevated concentrations of one or more radionuclides even if other nearby bedrock wells have low concentrations. Wells that derive water from sand and gravel deposits, also known as dug or point wells (shallow wells), generally have substantially lower concentrations or no dissolved radionuclide content.
Radionuclides exist throughout Massachusetts. In some areas the concentrations of these minerals exceed the drinking water standards for radioactivity. Read more ...
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