[CPEO-MEF] Arizona says perchlorate levels acceptable

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Perchlorate in river 'poses no threat'

Arizona governor calls levels acceptable

By PAUL DAVENPORT 
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (Las Vegas Review-Journal, NV)
December 10, 2004


PHOENIX -- A study intended to gauge the safety of drinking water from
the Colorado River found some amounts of a chemical component of rocket
fuel, but Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano said Thursday the levels were acceptable.

Perchlorate can interfere with thyroid function and hormone balance, but
the level of perchlorate found in Arizona drinking water "poses no
threat to the public," Napolitano said in announcing the findings of a
state task force.

The lower Colorado River provides drinking water for central and
southern Arizona, Southern Nevada and Southern California.

A chemical plant near Las Vegas that produced ammonium perchlorate for
the space shuttle program and rocket engines has been identified as the
primary source of perchlorate contamination in the river. Water
containing perchlorate was discharged into unlined evaporation ponds. It
then seeped into the aquifer and then Lake Mead and the Colorado River.
The Henderson plant, owned by Kerr-McKee Chemical Corp. is being cleaned up.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2004/Dec-10-Fri-2004/news/25449043.html

-- 


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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org
_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@list.cpeo.org
http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military