Atoll island fresh water resources are controlled by recharge, seawater dilution due to vertical tidal mixing between the surface and deeper aquifers, and by loss due to entrainment by the more » outflowing water in the deeper aquifers. This model suggests that fresh water, nutrients or radioactive contaminants found in island ground water or reef interstitial water may be discharged primarily into the ocean rather than the lagoon.
This results in a net lagoon-to-ocean head which can act as the driving force for outflow through the permeable Pleistocene aquifer. Because of wave set-up over the windward reef and the limited pass area for outflow at the south end of the atoll, lagoon tides rise in phase with the ocean tides but fall later than the ocean water level. From 15 to 60 m (approximate lagoon depth) the reef structure consists of successive layers of altered Pleistocene materials, with bulk permeability substantially higher than that of the surface aquifer. The surface aquifer of unconsolidated Holocene material extends to a depth of approximately 15 m, and has a hydraulic conductivity K = 60 m/day. Bruce Poliquin said on Wednesday that he has made it a priority to help ensure that veterans are fully supported in every capacity.Extensive tidal studies in island wells and the lagoon at Enewetak Atoll have shown that island ground water dynamics are controlled by a layered aquifer system. After having served and sacrificed, shouldn’t have to be fighting the VA.” It could be added to something else … You just keep looking for chances to fix the policy. “A bill doesn’t always go through a regular legislative process. “There are issues like this that should not be controversial and that can sometimes be attached to other bills that are going through,” he said. On Wednesday, Ritch said it is impossible to predict the passage of legislation. Chellie Pingree has signed onto the bill as a co-sponsor and will be added to the official list of co-sponsors when Congress goes back into session next month, according to Willy Ritch, her spokesman. Members of Maine’s congressional delegation reached on Wednesday said that they believe the veterans should be helped. Last year, a VA spokesperson told the BDN that the agency does not have any data indicating veterans should be concerned over radiological safety and that radiation exposures were “as low as reasonably achievable.” The tiny island was the scene of more than 40 nuclear tests from 1948 to 1958, and when the two Mainers were among those told to clean it up with little protective gear, they believe they became contaminated with radioactive dust.Īlthough the VA could on its own grant what the Enewetak Atoll veterans are asking, so far the agency has not indicated there is a lot of interest in doing that.
Laird and Dean were among approximately 6,000 American soldiers tasked with rehabilitating the atoll between 19 before it was returned to the people of the Marshall Islands.
With this designation, they would not have to prove their cancers were caused by radiation and would likely have an easier time getting a disability rating from the VA.
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Veterans such as Laird and Jeffery Dean of Belfast want to be designated as so-called atomic veterans so that if they are diagnosed with one of several specific cancers or nonmalignant conditions they can be entitled to compensation or free medical care through the U.S. The website, which follows Congress, only gave the bill a 5 percent chance of getting out of committee and a 1 percent chance of being enacted into law. 6 and has not advanced any farther on its legislative path. It was referred to the House subcommittee on health on Nov. 3870, is called the Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act, and was introduced last November by U.S. We’re trying however we can to get the word out, but people just don’t seem to think it’s very important.” “We are not seeing people jump up and down to get onboard,” he said earlier this month.
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