[CPEO-MEF] More Cape Cod perchlorate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

More tainted wells found
New EPA test detects low perchlorate levels in Forestdale water.

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
March 23, 2005


FALMOUTH - Neighbors in Forestdale are reeling after they received word 
that all the drinking wells tested on Peters Pond Drive in Forestdale 
have very low levels of perchlorate.

Six of the seven wells were tested.

The Army found perchlorate in the private drinking water well of the 
Moretti family on Peters Pond Drive last spring.

The recent detections, which ranged from an estimated 0.11 to 0.12 parts 
per billion, were found by the Environmental Protection Agency using a 
new test that can detect the substance down to 0.065 parts per billion.

The method used by the Army's Groundwater Study Program tests down to 
.35 parts per billion.

The detections seem to suggest that the perchlorate contamination in 
Forestdale is more widespread than first thought. One home on the road 
had tested positive for perchlorate since last May, but the other homes 
turned up nothing.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/moreepa23.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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