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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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 people were exposed to highly toxic concentrations of aluminium in drinking water over an extended time. A number of inadequate investigations into …
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Research news; Education. At a glance; Clinical reviews; Practice; Minerva; ... Disturbance of cerebral function in people exposed to drinking water contaminated with aluminium sulphate: retrospective study of the Camelford water incident BMJ 1999 ... The valuable Camelford Aluminium report (Altmann P et al BMJ 99:319:807-811) raises more ...
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Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate - used to treat cloudy water - was mistakenly tipped into the wrong tank at the unmanned plant by a relief delivery driver and the chemical …
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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 Lowermoor Water Treatment Plant near Camelford.
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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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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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News Roundup [abridged Versions Appear In The Paper Journal] ... 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-opened. An independent expert advisory ... the toxicological consequences of the poisoning of the Camelford ...
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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 Camelford.
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The death of a 60-year-old man was not caused by a water poisoning incident, a coroner has said. In 1988, 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate were tipped into the wrong tank at the Lowermoor treatment ...
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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 …
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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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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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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 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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Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate were mistakenly dumped into the wrong water tank by a relief lorry driver at the Lowermoor treatment plant, which supplied around 20,000 homes and businesses in ...
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Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate were tipped into the wrong tank at a treatment works on 6 July 1988, contaminating water to 20,000 homes.
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About 20,000 homes were affected when a relief delivery driver accidentally tipped the aluminium sulphate into the wrong tank at the unmanned Lowermoor water treatment works on 6 July 1988.
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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 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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3. McMillan TM, Freemont AJ, Herxheimer A et al Camelford water Poisoning Accident: serial neuropsychological assessments and further observation on bone aluminium. Human Exptal Toxicol 1993,12, 37-42. 4. Esmonde TFG Methodological errors BMJ letters 1999, 319,7213,807. 5. David A Camelford: faulty data and faulty assumptions. BMJ letters,1999 ...
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It is more than two decades since 20,000 homes in Camelford were affected when a relief delivery driver accidentally tipped 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate into the wrong tank at the Lowermoor ...
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On 6 July 1988, 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate were accidentally emptied into the treated water reservoir that served 20 000 people in the Camelford area of Cornwall. The water was heavily contaminated with aluminium and the pH was very low.1 Despite delay in informing the public of the accident, reports emerged
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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...
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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 Lowermoor Water Treatment Plant near Camelford. It went...
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Twenty tonnes of aluminium sulphate were mistakenly dumped into the wrong water tank at the Lowermoor treatment plant, near Camelford, by a …
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In July 1988, 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate were accidentally dumped into the wrong tanks at the Lowermoor treatment works near the Cornish town of Camelford. …
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Aluminium sulphate poisoning probably led to long term cerebral impairment in some people in Camelford. Introduction. On 6 July 1988, 20 tonnes of aluminium sulphate were accidentally emptied into the treated water reservoir that served 20 000 people in …
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