From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | 17 Jun 2006 07:31:54 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-military |
Subject: | [CPEO-MEF] Olin (San Martin, CA) cuts bottled water |
Olin Ends Bottled H2OBy Serdar Tumgoren Gilroy Dispatch (CA) June 15, 2006 Gilroy - Road flare manufacturer Olin Corporation plans to stop providing free bottled water over the next month to hundreds of households between Gilroy and Morgan Hill. The move, expected for more than a year, comes as the company prepares to release a study about its role in creating a 9.5-mile plume of perchlorate contamination stretching south from its former Tennant Avenue plant. The company has argued increasingly in recent months that perchlorate, a sodium that can cause thyroid dysfunction in high enough levels, could have come from other sources. Olin notified 1,200 households at the beginning of the month that their bottled water shipments may end in coming weeks. Between 600 and 800 households, most of them lying on the edges of the plume, are expected to lose their supply by the end of next month, according to Olin project manager Rick McClure. In May 2005, the State Water Resources Control Board ruled that Olin could discontinue water shipments to homes with water supplies found to have perchlorate levels of 6 parts per billion or less over four straight quarters. ... For the entire article, see http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/contentview.asp?c=188199 --
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