The L.A.D.W.P. has been working on a water-recycling project for the past 10 years (East Valley Water Reclamation Project) without your knowledge or your consent. They intend to dump medical, industrial and toilet waste into the Donald Tillman Reclamation Plant in the Sepulveda basin, treat it in a tertiary manner (including the use of chlorine), pump it up to the spreading fields just below Hansen Dam and allow it to percolate down and traverse the East San Fernando Valley. We are hearing recently that this entire area is completely polluted with Chromium VI. That should be enough to make you sick.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) currently tests our water for only 100 to 200 contaminants. This project will be adding many more commercial toxins whose presence will go undetected because the water officials have no method of testing for them. But these additional toxins do exist (Reference, "Pandora’s Poison" by J. Thornton)

In the early 1980’s, the National Academy of Sciences’ National Research Council completed a four-year study and found that 78% of the chemicals in highest-volume commercial use had not had even "minimal" toxicity testing. Thirteen years later, there has been no significant improvement.

How can the public tell whether a large majority of the highest-use chemicals in the United States pose health hazards – much less how serious the risks might be, or whether those chemicals are actually under control? Yet these unknown toxins will be recycled, treated with high doses of chlorine and placed into our ground water?

What we don’t know may hurt us. Guinea pig status is not what congress promised the public. Instead, it established a national policy that the risks of toxic chemicals in our environment would be identified and controlled. Ignorance, pervasive and persistent over the course of twenty years, has made that promise meaningless.

Chemical safety can’t be based on faith. It requires facts. Government policy and regulation have been so ineffective in making progress against the chemical ignorance problem for so long, that the chemical manufacturing industry itself must now take direct responsibility for solving it. It is high time for the facts to be delivered.

We urge you to listen to experts and scientists who all say, "Proceed with caution! More research is needed!!"