perchlorate funding

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Pombo perchlorate bill passes House panel

July 16, 2004

Legislation that would provide $25 million to the Santa Clara Valley 
Water District so it can more quickly deal with perchlorate 
contamination in a groundwater basin serving south Santa Clara County 
has won approval of a key Congressional committee.

The legislation - approved Wednesday by the House Committee on Resources 
- would fund projects to restore clean, safe drinking water to thousands 
of people whose wells have been affected by perchlorate, a chemical used 
to manufacture road flares and rocket fuel, before completion of what is 
expected to be a decades-long cleanup of the groundwater basin.

Authored by Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Stockton, the legislation is in 
response to discovery 18 months ago of an underground perchlorate plume 
that originated from a former Olin Corp. road flare-manufacturing site 
in Morgan Hill. Pombo's district includes Morgan Hill.

The plume stretches 10 miles south through the unincorporated area of 
San Martin and to the northern boundary of Gilroy’s city limits.

"We know Olin will live up to its responsibility to clean up the 
contamination, but it's going to take several years, even decades," said 
Joe Judge, chairman of the water district board of directors. "From the 
day we found the plume, the water district’s focus has been, and 
continues to be, on restoring use of the nearly 800 wells affected by 
perchlorate."

…

for the entire article, see
http://morganhilltimes.com/news/newsview.asp?c=115557

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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