[CPEO-MEF] Perchlorate testing labs

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pollution means big business for testing labs

By PETER WARD
Lowell Sun (MA)
October 11, 2004 

Even with the pollutant perchlorate suddenly showing up in local water
supplies, laboratories see better times ahead.

"We got a little busier in that regard," said Peter Henriksen, a manager
at Alpha Analytical Laboratory in Westboro, which tests water and soil.
The lab recently was asked to test 1,000 water samples for perchlorate
and found positive results in about 22.

So whose water contained the toxin?

"I can't divulge that," Henriksen said, citing confidentiality.

Perchlorate is the talk of the town at water-testing labs, said Ray
Raposa, executive director of the New England Water Works Association, a
trade group for labs and water utilities.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.lowellsun.com/Stories/0,1413,105~4746~2459960,00.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
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