Cape Cod (MMR) perchlorate plume threatens water supply

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Water search may be renewed

Local officials weigh options as pollution threatens Army's new Upper
Cape well system. 

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times
May 7, 2004

With a military-funded well site threatened by contamination, Upper Cape
water officials could ask the Army to find more water for their communities.

The $17.5 million well system was created by the Pentagon after
pollutants from the Massachusetts Military Reservation tainted billions
of gallons of groundwater.

The discovery of perchlorate in groundwater near the new wells now puts
that water supply in doubt.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/watersearch7.htm

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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
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