[CPEO-MEF] Perchlorate in Aberdeen (MD)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Water cleanup sparks dispute

$250,000 sought to filter missile-fuel ingredient; 'There has to be some
standards'; APG says it won't pay until EPA sets a limit

By Tom Pelton
Baltimore Sun 
February 6, 2005

Peter Dacey, manager of the city of Aberdeen, says he's frustrated that
the Army has refused to help the local government pay $250,000 to
install filters to remove a chemical found in explosives from the public
drinking water supply, even though it probably seeped from Aberdeen
Proving Ground. 

"Naturally you would think that somebody who is responsible for the
contamination would assume responsibility for the cleanup," Dacey said
in an interview Friday. 

The chemical, perchlorate, is the primary ingredient in missile fuel and
explosives, and over the past five years it has been detected at trace
levels in three public drinking wells in Aberdeen and hundreds more in
California, Massachusetts and across the country. 

At high concentrations, perchlorate can cause brain damage in children
and disrupt the thyroid gland's ability to produce hormones, research
has suggested. 

...

For the entire article, go to
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/harford/bal-ha.aberdeen06feb06,1,2668861.story?coll=bal-local-harford 

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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