[CPEO-MEF] Cape Cod (MA) perchlorate mystery

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Water pollutant a mystery

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
December 16, 2005


FORESTDALE - Environmental Protection Agency officials say they may
never know exactly the source of perchlorate found in private wells on
Peters Pond Drive.

But the agency will continue to test the wells to determine whether road
flares and road runoff from nearby Route 130 may be related to the
contamination, said the EPA's Lynne Jennings.

In the spring of 2004, the Army found traces of the chemical - found in
fireworks and military munitions - in the private well of the Moretti family.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/waterpollutant16.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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