[CPEO-MEF] Westwood, Mass. fireworks and perchlorate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Firework display

By Greg Duggan
Needham Daily News (MA)
November 14, 2006

WESTWOOD -- The town still plans to shoot off fireworks for its annual 
New Year's Eve celebration, but due to worries about pollution the event 
won't take place at the regular site of Buckmaster Pond.

While running tests to explore the possibility of using the pond as a 
drinking water source for Norwood, the state Department of Environmental 
Protection found perchlorate in five of the pond's seven wells. 
Perchlorate levels in one of the wells tested higher than recommended by 
the Department of Environmental Protection.

According to the state's DEP Web site, perchlorate can affect the body's 
thyroid gland, which controls metabolism.

The source of the perchlorate has yet to be determined, but the chemical 
compound is an inorganic salt used as a rocket propellant and often 
found in explosives and fireworks.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=79158

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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