City should remove 1,500 radio meters

To the editor:

In exasperation with city officials unwillingness to acknowledge at the vast amount of research and articles we have presented, we asked Robert Palma to present a letter to all city officials explaining why the RF emissions from the Neptune RF water meters pose a potential health threat to the people who live and sleep within 30 feet of these meters. He has done so, and there was an environmental committee meeting to discuss the possibility of finding meters that would work with fiber optics.

At this time the city has issued a rather costly ?opt out? policy. Vermont is the first state to make it illegal to charge money for opting out of RF wireless meters. We hope Iowa will follow in this decision. We are grateful to have the ?opt out? but we feel all the Neptune RF meters should be removed. In the words of John Brown of Fairfield, who has the RF Neptune meter, ?We will pay an opt out fee indefinitely to avoid harm imposed on us in our own home, from a technology designated as a carcinogen by the World Health Organization, in the same category as leaded gasoline, chloroform and chlorodane toxic chemicals.

The Neptune company has a history of lawsuits. The Neptune E coder water meter was misrepresented by the city as being something other than it is. It was represented as sending RF emissions only once a month. We found this meter due to someone's illness who was within 15 feet of the meter, who recovered after leaving the site of the RF meter (it happened twice and there are wittnesses). We then had the meter measured and found it being measured on YouTube. In fact, the meters transmit spikes of RF radiation every 14 seconds 24 hours a day. We have a letter from Ed Malloy presenting that misrepresentation. Of all the meter companies, the Neptune company is the only one refusing to talk to us. Robert Palma tried to get the statistics from them, as a highly qualified electrical engineer, they would not speak with him.

We feel strongly that the city should take out all the 1500 RF meters they have installed (often these are in bedrooms just inches or a few feet from peoples? heads while sleeping, considered especially dangerous for pregnant women and children) and remove their agenda to make Fairfield an all ?RF? city. Fairfield, as part of the ?Go Green agenda? was modeled after Dubuque as an experiment in RF meters years ago. The important point is that the burden of proof of safety should not be on the citizen. These meters are untested and dozens of qualified agencies, like the World Health Organization, and the American Association of Environmental Medicine, scientists and physicians publicly state there should be cause for extreme concern about the RF emission standards.

? Kathryn Seranduc, Fairfield