[CPEO-MEF] JPL (CA) perchlorate responsibility

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

NASA report exonerates JPL in pollution of 5 water wells

By Elise Kleeman
Pasadena Star-News (CA)
February 21, 2007

PASADENA - A NASA report quietly released late last month concludes that 
the Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Superfund site did not pollute five city 
water wells shuttered because of perchlorate contamination.

The report's conclusions could keep the city from receiving federal 
funding for the treatment plant required to reopen the wells. City 
officials estimate the plant would cost $2.2million to construct and 
$1.5 million annually to operate.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is currently funding 
cleanup at two Altadena wells tainted by the toxins, which leeched from 
waste pits used at JPL in the 1940s and '50s. A treatment plant for four 
more Pasadena wells is planned for completion in 2008.

"We've had success with dealing with the first series of wells, and it 
really is no surprise that NASA would begin the discussion about the 
next series by raising a question of responsibility," said Mayor Bill 
Bogaard of the report. "I would say it's almost predictable."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/search/ci_5270649

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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>
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