Phoenix Perchlorate Sampling Dispute

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

UPCO Ignored Residents in Path of Contaminant

Mary Jo Pitzl
The Arizona Republic
April 1, 2004

NORTH PHOENIX - Dolores Hesselbrock lives southwest of the UPCO plant,
the very direction that the company suspects is the path of contaminated groundwater.

Yet company officials didn't contact her or her neighbors when they
rushed to test local drinking-water wells for contamination last week.
Instead, they looked to the neighborhood to the north. Goodrich Corp.,
parent company of the aircraft ejection-seat manufacturer, announced
last week that tests showed high levels of perchlorate in the
groundwater beneath the plant.

Perchlorate inhibits the thyroid and is cropping up in water supplies
near explosives manufacturers.

Hesselbrock was perplexed why Goodrich's speedy response evaded the
homes along Happy Valley Road, west and southwest of the plant on North
Central Avenue.

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for the entire story, see
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0401upco01.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org