[CPEO-MEF] Morgan Hill (CA) and the Olin perchlorate plume

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

MH Waiting to Pin Perchlorate Plume on Olin

By Matt King 
Gilroy Dispatch (CA)
January 10, 2006


Morgan Hill - Another meeting, another cajoling letter, another set of
data, and still no satisfaction for Morgan Hill on the northeast
perchlorate plume.

Despite evidence that Morgan Hill officials are sure finger the Olin
Corp. as the polluter of the city's groundwater, the Central Coast
Regional Water Quality Control Board continues to resist calls to hold
the company responsible. 

The board ordered Olin to clean up the 10-mile southern plume through
San Martin and east of Gilroy a year ago. But in a recent letter with a
"don't call us, we'll call you" tone, water board executive officer
Roger Briggs told Morgan Hill City Manager Ed Tewes that it will be
another six months before the board revisits the contamination north of
Olin's former Railroad Avenue road-flare factory.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/contentview.asp?c=176551

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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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