[CPEO-MEF] Hills, Iowa perchlorate updates

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA: Unexploded fireworks contaminated water in Hills

By JEFFREY PATCH
DES MOINES REGISTER (IA)
June 16, 2005


Hills, Ia. - An official from the Environmental Protection Agency told a
gathering of Hills residents Wednesday evening that unexploded fireworks
caused a contamination of local groundwater and that the EPA will pay
for the installation of water filters in affected homes.

"By process of elimination, (fireworks) are really the only source that
it could be," said Craig Smith, a senior engineer with the EPA. "We
haven't got a smoking gun, but it's clearly the logical source."

Smith told a 90-minute forum of about 50 people at the Hills Community
Center that mishandling of fireworks caused a high level of perchlorate
in the groundwater in Hills, eight miles south of Iowa City.

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For the entire article, see
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050616/NEWS03/506160374/1001/NEWS



See also


EPA to trade bottles for filters

25 Hills residents get new water source

By Deidre Bello
Iowa City Press-Citizen 
June 16, 2005

HILLS -- A federal environmental agent told Hills residents Wednesday
the agency will stop supplying bottled water to 25 households with
perchlorate contamination and instead install temporary treatment systems.

The change is a temporary solution to help the town establish a
permanent city water system, said Craig Smith, project leader with the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 7.

In July, EPA officials will start installing reverse osmosis treatment
systems in homes that have contamination levels of 18 parts per billion
or more.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050616/NEWS01/506160306/1079

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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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