[CPEO-MEF] Camp Pendleton (CA) water

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Marines wrestle with water threat: Many on Camp Pendleton still drinking
from bottles, not tap

By: DENIS DEVINE 
North County Times (San Diego County, CA)
January 29, 2006

Five months after tests revealed Camp Pendleton's southern water system
was tainted with unhealthy levels of lead, base officials say they don't
know what caused the contamination. Several thousand adults and children
in homes, schools and a chapel on the southern half of the base are
still drinking water from bottles supplied by the U.S. Marine Corps
rather than their own faucets.
But base officials say they're on top of the problem, and no reports of
related illnesses have surfaced. 

In a response to questions e-mailed Wednesday, base officials said that
a consultant hired to analyze Camp Pendleton's southern water system had
determined that the base's hard water might have turned "mildly
aggressive" during the August sampling that turned up the too-high
levels of lead. "Aggressive" water is defined online as soft water that
is either slightly acidic or rich in dissolved minerals. It often
corrodes plumbing, piping and appliances in municipal and home water systems.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/01/29/perspective/devine/20_32_451_28_06.txt

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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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