[CPEO-MEF] Camp Pendleton's (CA) puzzling water pollution

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Source of lead in Pendleton's water confounding state, military officials

High copper levels also bedevil drinking supply on Marine base

By Mike Lee
DAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE 
October 28, 2005

Somewhere in Camp Pendleton's drinking-water system lurks something that
is pushing lead levels too high. It is causing the Marines to issue
health warnings and distribute up to 25,000 gallons of bottled water a
week to people on the base.

The mystery unfolded last month, when base officials announced that lead
had contaminated the tap water. It is San Diego County's first case of
elevated lead in a public water system since nationally standardized
testing began in 1992. In recent weeks, Camp Pendleton's worst sample
registered a lead concentration of 191 parts per billion, more than 12
times the federal guideline.

State and military officials are trying to unravel why so much lead
would show up now when they've never seen similar spikes at the base.
But more than five weeks after Camp Pendleton's initial report about the
contamination, almost everything about the case remains murky ? and it
may stay that way for months.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20051028-9999-1n28lead.html

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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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