[CPEO-MEF] Olin's perchlorate and Morgan Hill's (CA) water

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pollution Investigation Due in March

By Matt King
Gilroy Dispatch (CA)
February 7, 2006

San Martin - The city of Morgan Hill's aggressive lobbying to hold the 
Olin Corp. responsible for the city's perchlorate contamination is 
beginning to pay off. The Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control 
Board will decide by the end of March if there's enough evidence to pin 
Morgan Hill's pollution on the company.

"To determine whether we have enough credible evidence to assign 
responsibility to Olin, that will be the tough part," said water board 
engineer Hector Hernandez, who oversees Olin's cleanup of South County's 
groundwater. "It may mean we find out we don't have sufficient 
information to assign responsibility to Olin."

Olin doesn't dispute that its Railroad Avenue road-flare factory, which 
it operated from 1955 to 1987, caused the 9.5-mile perchlorate plume 
that stretches south through San Martin and east of Gilroy. But the 
company claims it's not responsible for the so-called northeast flow 
because groundwater moves south from the factory site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/contentview.asp?c=178450

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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