[CPEO-MEF] Massachusetts perchlorate standard coming soon

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Perchlorate level revision considered

By Karen Gardner
North Adams Transcript (MA)
March 9, 2005

BOSTON -- Although the federal government issued its first safe drinking 
water standard for perchlorate in February, the state's division of the 
Environmental Protection Agency expect to come out with its own standard 
in about a month.

In addition, the Massachusetts department will propose a clean-up 
standard for perchlorate in drinking water systems. The standard will 
specify to what level the perchlorate must be reduced, in order to be 
considered safe.

Perchlorate, a chemical used in rocket fuel and explosives, was 
discovered last spring at Mount Greylock Regional High School in 
Williamstown. With a finding last October of 10 parts per billion, the 
school's well water has the third-highest perchlorate level in the state.

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Lenny Siegel
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