Olin appeals San Martin (CA) perchlorate order

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Olin files appeal on clean-up order

By Carol Holzgrafe
Morgan Hill Times (CA)
August 17, 2004

It was one step forward, one step back and a glimmer of hope at the PCAG
(the Perchlorate Community Advisory Group) meeting Friday in San Martin.

News of a process to identify the origin of perchlorate in water was one
step forward. The one step back was Olin Corp. filing an appeal that
could ultimately relieve the company from its responsibility to provide
an alternative source of pure water for residents on contaminated wells
and to clean up the soil and groundwater it polluted. 

A decision on the appeal will likely not be made for more than a year.

David Athey, the state regional water quality control board?s project
manager for the South Valley contamination, said the Olin appeal is in
response to a cleanup and abatement order (CAO) the regional board
imposed in July. Olin was to provide bottled water for residents on
wells whose water tested at 4 parts per billion or more. 

The state set 6 ppb as a Public Health Goal in March, and Olin has said
it thought 4 ppb too stringent a standard.

The company appealed the entire CAO including the order to perform
monitoring and provide treatment systems on individual wells and, Athey
said, a decision could take as much as a year and a half. In the
meantime, Olin has asked the state water board - the regional board?s
parent agency - for a stay on the cleanup order until the appeal is
decided. This could halt any bottled water distribution but Athey said
he was promised - verbally, but not in writing - that that would not happen.

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for the entire article, see
http://morganhilltimes.com/news/newsview.asp?c=119738
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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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