[CPEO-MEF] Stringfellow (CA) perchlorate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Officials downplay perchlorate discovery

SANTA ANA RIVER: Rain has carried the chemical downstream from the 
Stringfellow acid pits.

By JENNIFER BOWLES
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
February 15, 2005

The state agency overseeing the cleanup of the Stringfellow acid pits 
has for the first time detected a rocket fuel chemical in a creek that 
flows through northwest Riverside County to the Santa Ana River, 
officials said Monday.

Although Pyrite Creek runs behind an elementary school and through the 
back yards of some homes in the semi-rural Jurupa Valley, the California 
Department of Toxic Substances Control said there is no immediate health 
risk from the perchlorate.

The potential for human contact is low, given that the chemical is not 
easily absorbed through the skin and it moved quickly in the 
rain-swollen creek when tests were conducted last month, said Allen 
Wolfenden, chief of the state agency's Stringfellow Branch.

Elliott Duchon, superintendent of the Jurupa Unified School District, 
said the discovery should not pose a hazard for children at Glen Avon 
Elementary School since the creek, which is a concrete-lined channel 
near the campus, is fenced off. Wolfenden said the levels of perchlorate 
dropped in the creek to trace amounts before it reached the Santa Ana 
River, which is used downstream by Orange County for drinking water.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/breakingnews/local/stories/PE_News_Local_stringfellow15.f516.html


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Lenny Siegel
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