[CPEO-MEF] Olin perchlorate site - "well owners may lose bottled water"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contaminated-well owners may lose bottled water
STATE BOARD TO DECIDE SOUTH COUNTY DISPUTE

By HongDao Nguyen
San Jose Mercury News (CA)
May 10, 2005

Hundreds of South County private well owners who have received bottled
water from Olin Corp. because of perchlorate contamination could have
their supplies nixed.

Friday the state Water Resources Control Board issued a draft order
stating that only wells that register six parts per billion or more of
contamination should receive bottled water. The Regional Water Quality
Control Board had required households that registered four or more parts
per billion receive bottles of water.

About 360 South County wells read four to six parts per billion of the
chemical, while nearly 150 wells register readings over six.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/11608762.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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