[CPEO-MEF] Bottled water for San Martin (CA) well-owners

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Olin Continues Bottled Water

By Matt King
Gilroy Dispatch (CA)
February 16, 2006


Morgan Hill - San Martin residents whose well water is laced with trace 
amounts of perchlorate will continue to receive bottled water.

More than 100 families were due to lose their bottled water this month 
because their wells test below 4 parts per billion for the contaminant 
known to inhibit thyroid function.

But in a quiet rebuke to the Olin Corp., the company responsible for the 
pollution, the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board 
declined to act on the company's request to cease delivery for the users 
of 78 wells that have tested at or below 4 ppb for the past year.

The procedural move - the board did not deny the request but did not 
take action on a resolution to support it - means the wells users will 
continue to receive water through May. Under a state board order, Olin 
can at that point stop bottled water delivery to wells that have tested 
at or below 6 ppb for a year.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/contentview.asp?c=179077

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Lenny Siegel
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