[CPEO-MEF] LANL Installing New Filter To Trap Perchlorate

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Thursday, April 17, 2003
LANL Installing New Filter To Trap Perchlorate
By Adam Rankin
Journal Staff Writer

A new filtration system is being installed at a waste-water treatment
facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory after lab officials measured
elevated levels of perchlorate in its effluent over the last several
months.

LANL spokesman James Rickman said all discharges from the High
Explosives Wastewater Treatment facility at Technical Area 16, or TA-16,
will be on hold until the new system is in place and functioning in
about two months.

"The bottom line is we are not going to discharge any effluent from that
facility until it has been treated for perchlorate," he said. A similar
ion-exchange filter was installed last year at LANL's Radioactive Liquid
Wastewater Treatment facility at TA-50 to remove perchlorate from its
effluent.

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http://www.nukewatch.org/media/more_media/04-00-03/04-14-03/AJperchlorate.html