[CPEO-MEF] Santa Clara Valley (CA) Water District backs Olin cleanup plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Well cleanup plan pushed
FIXING PERCHLORATE PROBLEM TO TAKE YEARS

By HongDao Nguyen
Sam Jose Mercury News (CA)
December 15, 2004

It will take at least 25 years to clean up wells contaminated with
perchlorate in South County, but the plan moved a step closer to reality
Tuesday as the Santa Clara Valley Water District board accepted it and
sent it on to a regional water board.

The plan calls for Olin, the company that caused the pollution, to
install monitoring wells to better define the plume of pollution, halt
its spread by building extraction wells to remove the perchlorate and
provide affected residents with individual treatment systems.

The Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board is expected to
issue a formal cleanup order to Olin. The company ran a flare
manufacturing plant and warehouse in Morgan Hill from 1956 to 1996 that
polluted the area's groundwater with perchlorate, a chemical linked to
thyroid disorders.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/10420892.htm

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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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