JPL Perchlorate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Water company to leave 2 wells shut down 
Lincoln Avenue to wait for new plant 

By Kimm Groshong 
Pasadena Star-News

Wednesday, June 16, 2004 - ALTADENA -- The Lincoln Avenue Water Company
says it will not use two wells found to have perchlorate levels
exceeding state levels until its new NASA-funded treatment plant opens
next month. "Technically, we could still turn the wells on,' said
General Manager Robert Hayward. However, he said, "we are not going to
do that. We are going to take public health into consideration and leave
the wells off until the new system plant is up and running.' 

"We know that perchlorate in our drinking water wells originated from
past discharges at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the known perchlorate
plume site,' the private company said in a letter to its several
thousand customers. 

Decades of chemical contamination from JPL's disposal of rocket fuel in
ground seepage pits during the 1940s and 1950s, has resulted in high
concentrations of perchlorate and volatile organic compounds in the
area's groundwater. 
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for the entire article, see
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/Stories/0,1413,206~22097~2217149,00.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

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