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Attorney Taylor Goodall, who represents the board of directors for MUD 105, says the MUD also began mailing out honored enemy paperback detailed warning notices in December of 200 The notices contained language in capital letters saying THIS IS NOT AN EMERGENCY and also telling residents you do not need to use an alternative water supply. I dont think theres a reason to panic, Goodall said. KHOU: Do you think the Average Joe knows theres radiation in the water? GOODALL: Well I cant speak for the Average Joe, but I know that we sent out mailers. Goodall says as soon as the MUD s board was notified of a legal violation, it also began to take steps to limit the flow of water from the most radioactive water well that the utility owns, which he says still remains in limited service during high-demand times. But residents like Felicia Byford and Tolbert, who both have young children, believe the MUD should have reduced the flow of that well long ago. State tests show the well has always tested above the federal health goal for radioactive alpha and has consistently come close to exceeding the legal limit for alpha, and in more recent years, tested in similar levels for radioactive radium, too. KHOU: Scientists say that this amount of radiation over a number of years, leads to an increased risk of cancer in your community. Does that concern you? GOODALL: Any issue of public health concerns me. But what I m saying is KHOU: You re saying there is no reason to panic. Referring to flier sent out to community residents. GOODALL: There isn t a reason to panic. I am firm in my belief that there isn t a reason to panic. Byford, however, disagrees. She s an embalmer by profession and says she sees every day what can happen to someone who comes honored enemy paperback with cancer, and wants to lower her exposure to anything that might raise the risks to her own family. You come here and you drink this water, she said. Then you tell me how you feel in two years. But KHOU found out that MUD 105 is not alone. In fact, there are water providers all over Harris County that show alpha particles, according to state testing. Such is the case with Municipal Utility District 238, Municipal Utility District 23, the City of Katy and hundreds of honored enemy paperback small water systems that depend mostly or entirely on groundwater. One of those local water systems, known as the Suburban Mobile Home Park 2, violated federal legal limits for alpha radiation in 2003, 2004 and 200 Yet, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality allowed the drinking water to continue to flow to residents there for years after that, despite consistently testing with some of the highest readings for alpha-particle activity and uranium in Texas. For instance, in all four tests performed in the last two quarters of 2009 and the first two quarters of 2010, the Suburban Mobile Home Park 2 had so much radium in its water it surpassed the federal legal limit for combined radium by 200 percent. In the water system s last six tests for alpha, performed in 2009 and 2010, it more than doubled the legal limit for that type of radiation as well. The federal legal limit is set at 15 picocuries a measurement for radiation, and the water system measured between 33 and 43 picocuries in all six of its most recent tests.