From: | "lsiegel@cpeo.org" <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | 19 Feb 2006 09:14:14 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] DC perchlorate |
Groundwater Toxin Found at Additional D.C. Sites Officials Want to Know if Contaminant, Detected at High Levels, Could Reach Reservoir By Susan Levine Washington Post February 18, 2006 More testing for groundwater problems in Northwest Washington neighborhoods where the U.S. Army researched chemical weapons during World War I has found new locations of perchlorate contamination, at some of the highest levels detected to date, according to officials. Undetermined is whether the contamination could end up in the Dalecarlia Reservoir or the Washington Aqueduct, both of which supply drinking water to more than 1 million people in the metropolitan area. The three federal and city agencies involved in a multimillion-dollar cleanup of the Spring Valley community released data this week that showed elevated perchlorate concentrations in a monitoring well near the reservoir and in two other wells adjacent to where ordnance and laboratory glassware were dumped during the heyday of the Army's American University Experiment Station. ... For the entire article, see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/17/AR2006021702 033.html -- 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 http://www.cpeo.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . _______________________________________________ Military mailing list Military@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/military | |
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