[CPEO-MEF] perchlorate source named

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State names Billerica firm in perchlorate case

By Joyce Pellino Crane
Boston Globe 
November 25, 2004

BILLERICA -- The state Department of Environmental Protection has
identified a Billerica manufacturer of medical devices as a source of
perchlorate, a contaminant in the drinking water of neighboring Tewksbury.

Results of tests by the Billerica Water Department show that discharges
from a manufacturing process at a CR Bard Inc. plant is causing
fluctuating levels of perchlorate at the Billerica's waste-water
treatment facility, according to Selectman James O'Donnell. The
waste-water facility is upstream from Tewksbury on the northern flowing
Concord River.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/11/25/state_names_billerica_firm_in_perchlorate_case/

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Lenny Siegel
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