Re: Ground-Water Treatment Wastes Valuable Resources

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Without, for now, taking a position on the suitability of using as
drinking water treated water from contaminated sites, I want to stress
the importance of testing for and treating all potential contaminants.

In particular, percholorate (from the production of solid rocket fuel)
has been found recently at many military production sites known for
other contamination (such as TCE). The technology for detecting
perchlorate is new, and I'm not sure to what degree conventional water
treatment technologies remove perchlorate from water.

Lenny
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