[CPEO-MEF] Fireworks industry view of perchlorate regulation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fireworks industry disputes perchlorate concerns

By Debra Gorgos
Water Technology Online
August 17, 2006

The Pyrotechnics Guild International (PGI), a fireworks industry group, 
says through its spokesmen that a fireworks show for the September 16 
Harwich, MA, Cranberry Festival on Cape Cod should not have been 
cancelled over worries that perchlorate from fireworks debris would seep 
into the groundwater.

In the meantime, Harwich officials have now reversed course and have 
decided that the show will go on, but the fireworks will be 
nitrate-based instead of perchlorate-based, according to an August 17 
article in the Cape Cod Chronicle.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.watertechonline.com/news.asp?mode=4&N_ID=63208

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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