[CPEO-MEF] North Jersey perchlorate treatment

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Park Ridge acts to cut impurity in 2 water wells 

By WALTER DAWKINS
North Jersey
November 21, 2004 

PARK RIDGE - Borough officials say they hope to reduce concentrations of
a suspected contaminant found in two of the borough's water wells by
next summer.

An engineer is designing a treatment system that uses an ion exchange
process to reduce the concentration of the substance, known as perchlorate.

The engineer, James Palumbo of the Quad Three Group in Scranton, Pa.,
described the treatment system. 

"It is a resin that looks like little pearl-sized beads," he said. "We
put it in the tanks and we pass the water through this section of beads,
which suck up the perchlorate."

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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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