2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 18 Mar 2006 18:37:05 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Perchlorate update from Hills, Iowa
 
Officials discuss perchlorate testing

By Rachel Gallegos
Iowa City Press-Citizen
March 16, 2006


HILLS -- National and state environmental officials met Wednesday with a handful of Hills residents to explain the latest round of perchlorate contamination testing and talk about future plans for improving the town's water.


Test crews worked from Monday afternoon to Wednesday morning, taking before- and after-treatment water samples from homes around town to see if water quality has improved since the July 2005 test.

Six mon-ths ago, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials installed reverse osmosis treatment systems at homes that had contamination levels of 18 parts per billion or more.

The 19 homes were the priority during this week's testing, said Doug Ferguson, on-scene coordinator for EPA, Region 7 in Kansas City, Kan.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060316/NEWS01/603160328/1079

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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> http://www.cpeo.org


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