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Re: Water testing flawed in Tasmania. Media finally announce it.
Posted by: "james jones" jj_371@... amisanthony
Date: Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:11 pm ((PDT))
In Victoria we don't even have testing except for some sporadic testing in potable water supplies. 3 water authorities test for 42 pesticides + on a quarterly basis.
probably 99% of waterways in Victoria aren't tested for at all.
To: TasCleanWaterNetwork@yahoogroups.com; plantationsaustralia@yahoogroups.com
From: rosserbj@...
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:36:54 +1000
Subject: [plantationsaustralia] Water testing flawed in Tasmania. Media finally announce it.
I'm going to take credit for 12 years of saying
that the testing regime of the waters in Tasmania has been flawed. In
fact, it's been designed to look at some of the most diluted areas in the rivers
and streams, as Alison Bleaney pointed out. I have tried repeatedly to get
the Australian media to look into and report on this very topic. Without
success.
QUESTION: Alex Schaap has been in the job for
as long as I remember. Why has it taken him so long to speak out???
Why has the Australian now reported on the inadequate procedures that government
has employed???
"TASMANIA'S biosecurity chief has conceded
that the state's monitoring of potentially harmful pesticides in waterways is
flawed and may need to be replaced by a better-targeted program. The
current program, involving the testing of rivers and streams for pesticides at
55 locations, has for years been used to reassure the public about the effects
of pesticide sprays on water. However, Alex Schaap, the Government's general
manager of biosecurity and product integrity, told The Australian the sites
tested were not necessarily the best for detecting contamination. "The
monitoring sites exist because they are sites surveyed for other purposes," he
said. "If you wanted to look at triazine (herbicide) contamination, you would
want to look at different sites." Tasmania is reviewing regulation of the
triazine chemicals atrazine and simazine, after a state-commissioned report
revealed that they remain in the environment for up to three times longer in
cool-climate regions...."
Triazine health tests flawed. Matthew
Denholm. 21st April 2009
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25362756-5006788,00.html
Posted by: "james jones" jj_371@... amisanthony
Date: Tue Apr 21, 2009 8:11 pm ((PDT))
In Victoria we don't even have testing except for some sporadic testing in potable water supplies. 3 water authorities test for 42 pesticides + on a quarterly basis.
probably 99% of waterways in Victoria aren't tested for at all.
To: TasCleanWaterNetwork@yahoogroups.com; plantationsaustralia@yahoogroups.com
From: rosserbj@...
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:36:54 +1000
Subject: [plantationsaustralia] Water testing flawed in Tasmania. Media finally announce it.
I'm going to take credit for 12 years of saying
that the testing regime of the waters in Tasmania has been flawed. In
fact, it's been designed to look at some of the most diluted areas in the rivers
and streams, as Alison Bleaney pointed out. I have tried repeatedly to get
the Australian media to look into and report on this very topic. Without
success.
QUESTION: Alex Schaap has been in the job for
as long as I remember. Why has it taken him so long to speak out???
Why has the Australian now reported on the inadequate procedures that government
has employed???
"TASMANIA'S biosecurity chief has conceded
that the state's monitoring of potentially harmful pesticides in waterways is
flawed and may need to be replaced by a better-targeted program. The
current program, involving the testing of rivers and streams for pesticides at
55 locations, has for years been used to reassure the public about the effects
of pesticide sprays on water. However, Alex Schaap, the Government's general
manager of biosecurity and product integrity, told The Australian the sites
tested were not necessarily the best for detecting contamination. "The
monitoring sites exist because they are sites surveyed for other purposes," he
said. "If you wanted to look at triazine (herbicide) contamination, you would
want to look at different sites." Tasmania is reviewing regulation of the
triazine chemicals atrazine and simazine, after a state-commissioned report
revealed that they remain in the environment for up to three times longer in
cool-climate regions...."
Triazine health tests flawed. Matthew
Denholm. 21st April 2009
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25362756-5006788,00.html
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