[CPEO-MEF] Other sources of San Martin (CA) perchlorate?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Olin Pins Plume on 'Shrooms

By Matt King
Gilroy Dispatch (CA)
April 15, 2006

Morgan Hill - Chlorine bleach used in municipal water systems and at 
local mushroom farms is responsible for at least part of the perchlorate 
contamination in South County, according to the company that released 
perchlorate here for decades.

"Olin believes that mushroom farms represent an historic and ongoing 
perchlorate source," Olin Corp. engineer Rick McClure said. "Both the 
mushroom farms and well sanitizations are sources of perchlorate to 
groundwater, but we believe there are others."

Perchlorate was discovered last month in the retention ponds of three 
local mushroom farms at levels higher than all but a few wells that 
border the south Morgan Hill site of Olin's now-shuttered road-flare 
factory.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/contentview.asp?c=183764
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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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