The polluting incident occurred in 1988 when a truck driver mistakenly emptied some 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate — used in the early stages of wastewater treatment — into a tank containing ...
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Last year was the 30th anniversary of Britain's most infamous pollution event when 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate were inadvertently added to the potable water supplying the town of Camelford, Cornwall. Over 20,000 …
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On July 6, 1988, a relief delivery driver inadvertently tipped aluminum sulfate into the wrong tank at the unmanned Lowermoor water treatment works, affecting approximately 20,000 homes. The chemical used to treat cloudy water was …
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An inquest verdict is due into the death of a woman affected by the UK's worst mass-water poisoning. Carole Cross was one of 20,000 Cornish residents affected when aluminium sulphate was ...
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Camelford's water supply was poisoned in July 1988 when aluminium sulphate was tipped into the wrong tank at the Lowermoor treatment works. Last year a coroner said it may have contributed to the ...
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Source: Camelford water treatment works, where a relief driver triggered the health crisis in 1988 when he mistakenly poured 20,000 tonnes of aluminium sulphate into the drinking water
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About 20,000 customers were affected when a relief lorry driver mistakenly added 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate to drinking water at the Lowermoor treatment works in July 1988.
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About 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate accidentally ended up in the water supply of where the Crosses lived. Image caption, Mr Cross said his artistic wife first started showing signs of illness ...
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Aluminium sulphate was tipped into the wrong tank at a treatment works in Cornwall in July 1988.
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Altmann et al (1) conclude that poisoning with aluminium sulphate in Camelford 10 years ago 'probably led to long term cerebral impairment', an opinion which has predictably led …
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Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate were accidentally added to the water supply in Camelford, Cornwall, in 1988. ... He said that he had appeared on the local TV news on 12 July but did not ...
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It is unlikely that the chemicals involved in the 1988 Camelford water contamination incident in Cornwall caused any long term effects on health, says a report published last week.
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The Camelford water pollution incident involved the accidental contamination of the drinking water supply to the town of Camelford, Cornwall, in July 1988. Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate was inadvertently added to the water supply, raising the concentration to 3,000 times the admissible level.
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The Matta family live near Camelford, North Cornwall, where a huge quantity of aluminium sulphate poisoned the water supply 26 years ago. And of the seven children in the family, six have ...
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The Camelford water pollution incident involved the accidental contamination of the drinking water supply to the town of Camelford, Cornwall, in July 1988. Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate was inadvertently added to the water supply, raising the concentration to 3,000 times the admissible level. As the aluminium sulphate broke down it produced several tonnes of sulphuric acid …
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The people of Camelford in Cornwall have suffered a catalogue of illnesses since 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate was accidentally dumped into the water supply.
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Aluminium sulphate is used to remove solid particles from cloudy water. Four days later, when he was told there was a problem, Mr Stephens returned to Lowermoor and pointed out which tank he had ...
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It is unlikely that the chemicals involved in the 1988 Camelford water contamination incident in Cornwall caused any long term effects on health, says a report published last week. ... The incident occurred when a contractor dumped 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate directly into the water supply at the Lowermoor plant operated by South West Water ...
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Carole Cross lived in Camelford when aluminium sulphate was accidentally added to the water supply. When she died in 2004 from a rare form of Alzheimer's, she was found to have high levels of ...
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In July 1988, a relief lorry driver mistakenly added 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate to drinking water at the Lowermoor treatment works near Camelford, Cornwall.
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In July 1988 20 tonnes of Aluminium Sulphate, a chemical used to treat cloudy water, was mistakenly poured into the wrong tank at the …
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The Camelford poisoning happened in July 1988 when a relief delivery driver accidentally added aluminium sulphate, used to treat cloudy water, to the wrong tank at the Lowermoor works.
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Objective: To establish whether people exposed to drinking water contaminated with 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate in the Camelford area of Cornwall in the south west of England in July 1988 had suffered organic brain …
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To establish whether people exposed to drinking water contaminated with 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate in the Camelford area of Cornwall in the south west of England in July 1988 had suffered organic brain damage as opposed to psychological trauma only. Design.
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The Lowermoor water pollution incident occurred on 6 July 1988 at the South West Water Authority's (SWWA) water treatment works at Lowermoor, near Camelford, Cornwall. A relief tanker driver discharged 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate solution into the wrong tank at the unmanned works, subsequently contaminating water supplies to a large area of North …
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On 6 July 1988 a relief tanker driver discharged 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate solution into the wrong tank at the Lowermoor water treatment works, subsequently …
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Aluminium. In the summer of 1988 the presence of aluminium in drinking water became headline news. A lorry driver discharged his load of 20 tons of an 8% solution of aluminium sulphate into the wrong tank at Lowermoor water treatment works, South West Water Authority, Cornwall. The aluminium sulphate solution was carried to the town of … Details
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The Camelford poisoning happened in July 1988 when a relief delivery driver accidentally added aluminium sulphate, used to treat cloudy water, to the wrong tank at the Lowermoor works. That night the SWWA was inundated with about 900 complaints about dirty, foul-tasting water.
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The Camelford water pollution incident involved the accidental contamination of the drinking water supply to the town of Camelford, Cornwall, England with 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate in July 1988, raising the concentration to 3,000 times the admissible level. As the aluminium sulphate broke down it produced several tonnes of sulphuric acid which "stripped a cocktail of …
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In 2001 the enquiry into the contamination by aluminium sulphate of the public water supply of a large area of North Cornwall, centred around the town of Camelford, was re …
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The final report into the Camelford water poisoning incident 25 years ago, which has found that the pollution was "unlikely" to have caused long term health problems, has been dismissed as wholly inadequate by local MPs, doctors, and campaigners. On 6 July 1988 a relief tanker driver discharged 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate solution into the wrong tank at the …
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He poured the load of 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate, used to remove solid particles from cloudy water, into the tank, which actually held treated water prior to distribution to the consumers in Camelford. This immediately contaminated the water supply to 20,000 local people and up to 10,000 tourists. The maximum recorded aluminium ...
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Camelford's drinking water was poisoned on 6 July 1988, when a relief delivery driver mistakenly tipped 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate into the wrong tank at Lowermoor treatment works and the ...
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Ingestion Acute aluminium sulphate ingestion causes primarily gastrointestinal upset though neuropsychological and musculoskeletal sequelae were also reported in those who drank water to which 20 tonnes of eight per cent aluminium sulphate had accidentally been added in Camelford, Cornwall in 1988 (see below).
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tonnes of aluminium sulphate were accidentally dumped into the wrong tanks at the Lowermoor treatment works near the Cornish town of Camelford. As a result aluminium …
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