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[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'm reading the article you posted as well as a few others I found to explain the science, risk, and scale.

This feels like you're posting it as more alarmist than it is:

  • Its not the result of industrial pollution, as it is sometimes elsewhere in the world.
  • This looks like its also a small pocket of population (70,000 people according to your article which is even less than Flint Michigan at its worst)
  • California is following a stricter standard double that of the Federal requirement and even then....
  • ...none of the samples exceed the extra strict safe standards of 50 ppb "The highest reading from a single well came to 42 parts per billion"
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

But since it's in California, isn't there a risk of cancer?