2006 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 3 Apr 2006 20:57:42 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] San Martin (CA) perchlorate plume "dissipating"
 
Perchlorate Plume Dissipating

By Matt King
Gilroy Dispatch (CA)
April 3, 2006

San Martin - South County's perchlorate plume is dissipating and unlikely to expand into Gilroy, according to a new report on the plume issued by the Olin Corp.

Olin is responsible for the 9.5-mile plume that stretches from the company's former road-flare factory in Morgan Hill through San Martin and east of Gilroy.

In its most recent round of well tests, only 31 of more than 800 wells tested above 6 parts per billion, California's public health goal for the contaminant known to interfere with thyroid activity. Almost all of those wells were within a mile or two of the factory site.

The report, which is part of the cleanup order issued to Olin last year by the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, analyzes perchlorate levels in hundreds of wells in 2004 and 2005.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/contentview.asp?c=182806

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