[CPEO-MEF] Morgan Hill (CA) perchlorate - not enough information

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Olin Corp. Off the Hook


By Serdar Tumgoren
Gilroy Dispatch (CA)
May 4, 2006

Gilroy - A regional water board says it does not have enough information 
to pin perchlorate contamination in northeast Morgan Hill on the Olin 
Corporation, a road flare manufacturer ordered to clean up the 
potentially harmful substance from groundwater south of the city.

"There are a lot of questions, a lot of complexities, and at this time 
we don't believe we have sufficient information to assign responsibility 
(for the northeast area)," said Hector Hernandez, an engineer overseeing 
clean-up efforts for the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board.

The agency elaborated its reasoning in a 22-page report sent to Morgan 
Hill City Hall earlier this week. In it, the water board argues that 
numerous sources could be responsible for the perchlorate found in the 
Nordstrom Park well north of Tennant Avenue. In addition to the factory 
Olin operated from 1955 to 1987, the report states that perchlorate - a 
sodium known to cause thyroid dysfunction in large enough quantities - 
could have come from fertilizer, groundwater from nearby ponds and 
chlorine bleach from city wells and local mushroom farms.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/contentview.asp?c=185007


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