[CPEO-MEF] Cape Cod perchlorate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleanup targets toxin nearing Hyannis wells

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
January 9, 2007

HYANNIS - By March, county officials hope to build a water treatment 
plant to clean a plume of perchlorate flowing toward the Mary Dunn well 
field, a series of wells that feeds the taps in Hyannis.

So far, one well in the field tested positive for perchlorate at .55 
parts per billion - below the state's drinking water limit of 2 parts 
per billion. There is no immediate risk to public health, officials said.

But concentrations in the plume are as high as 50 parts per billion, 
county officials said, prompting a $240,000 groundwater cleanup.

The plume emanates from the Barnstable County Fire/Rescue Training 
Facility on Mary Dunn Road. The facility used flares containing 
perchlorate to ignite training fires until officials discovered the 
danger last summer.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/cleanuptargets9.htm

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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