[CPEO-MEF] Perchlorate update from Hills, Iowa

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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>
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