[CPEO-MEF] Massachusetts perchlorate hearing

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hearings on perchlorate standards begin

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times
April 11, 2006

BOURNE - In April 2004, Bourne residents packed the Peebles Elementary 
School gymnasium asking the water district and the state Department of 
Environmental Protection for a solution to the perchlorate problem.

...

Yesterday, public emotion leveled off to a dull roar as the DEP began a 
monthlong public comment period on regulations that will limit 
perchlorate in drinking water and contaminated soil to 2 parts per billion.

Only a dozen people attended the first public meeting last night at 
Peebles Elementary, and fewer offered testimony.

The audience included people who support DEP and those who thought the 
proposed state standards are too low.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/hearingson11.htm

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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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