I'd like to know from ex-Scientologoists if they drink bottled water or tap water at Gold Base. If it is tap water, was the water specifically filtered or chlorinated to get rid of coliforms. Do you know of anyone getting sick from drinking water ? Any cholera ?
They have violated water regulations every year since 1999 to 2005.
Most violations were major:
"Monitoring and Reporting and Other Violations: system failed to complete all samples or sample in a timely manner, or had another non-health-based violation. A significant monitoring violation means the system failed to take a large percentage of the required samples. "
http://oaspub.epa.gov/enviro/sdw_re...A&source=Groundwater&population=500&sys_num=0
More evidence of the disregard of human welfare.
The water is from an artesian well, they have a pump that pumps it into a holding tank, reservoir up above the big LRH house area, where it gets stored. There is a treatment area too, but I don't remember where that was. It's supplemented just by city, tap water I think, as needed. They have a fancy pump system for when the tank gets low.
I know that when my ex husband, Bruce Bolstad was the Chief Engineer at Gold, in the 90's, that he had difficulty getting Purchase Orders approved for the water testing that was supposed to be done, he would pay for them sometimes out of his own pocket by working extra hours in the staff canteen, beyond his usual 100 hours a week. The staff canteen paid some kind of commission on the canteen profits, not sure how that worked exactly, but it was something.
As far was what I heard about the test results, I don't recall what the tests that were done did show. I was never informed. I could have sworn that they were given some kind of "pass". That was announced at some of our morning musters.
Personally, just talking for myself and not any of the other staff, because I really didn't have all the data on how other staff responded to the water --- I had some problems that MAY have been with the water at the Int base, but that was between 1993 and 1994, that's a long time ago.
In 1993, I had severe diahrea, abdominal cramps and vomitting about 10 different times, almost once a month. I got treated by the MLO/nurses with antibiotics. I was off post three or four days each time, it really put me out. I also developed a duodenal ucler, very painful, that lasted over a year.
In 1994, I miraculously was allowed to see a non-Scientology doctor about my stomach problems and she wrote a prescription for me saying that I was to only drink bottled water. That cleared up my stomach problems, after about a month and I just kept drinking bottled water after that. I was afraid to go back to the artesian well water.
I used my pay to buy bottled water for the next 6 years. I had forgotten this, but the MLO area was pretty good at buying it for me, I'd send them $7 or $8 dollars a week, and they'd pick up bottled water for me from the store. Sometimes I get it for free even because I had a prescription for it. I never drank the base water again. All I know is that when I drank the bottled water, and got more sleep, the duodenal ulcer finally went away and I quit getting stomach flu every month, or whatever the heck I was getting.
I remember about 6 or 7 people getting sick with similar things as I did each month in 1993, and I recall that there were three other staff with chronic ulcer problems. Other than that, I don't know of any other staff, out of about 800, that had the same symptoms as I did. If the water was really bad, don't you think EVERYONE there would be getting sick all the time?
I think I was particularly suceptible because my immune system was shot, from only getting 2 hours of sleep a night in '93 and about 4 in '94.
Only real testing would have shown if the water was really responsible for my stomach problems back then. I can't say absolutely that they 1993 were caused by the water just only based on the fact that when I stopped drinking it, they went away. I say this because I also changed a lot of other things in my life at the same time-- I started gradually getting more sleep, up to 6 hours a night or more, then I adjusted my diet and nutrition, I took a bunch of homeopathic remedies for different things, stuff like that.
Any other Int staff on this board who can say anything about the water? Or health symptoms possibly from bad water? From a later time than 1993?