[CPEO-MEF] Aerojet Rancho Cordova (CA) perchlorate

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Seeking safe water
New Aerojet cleanup effort would treat chemical contamination at the wells

By Chris Bowman
Sacramento Bee (CA)
June 11, 2007

State health officials are considering a proposal that would have Rancho 
Cordova residents relying for the first time on treatment technologies 
to remove rocket fuel chemicals from their drinking water.

The proposed change in contaminant cleanup strategy comes as 
concentrations of chemicals are creeping up in several Rancho Cordova 
drinking-water wells.

The fixes, however, are expected to be completed before the 
contamination reaches unsafe levels, utility and state officials said.

Historically, the community's water supplier has taken wells off-line 
and even destroyed them when tests consistently picked up levels of fuel 
and solvent chemicals.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sacbee.com/101/story/215577.html

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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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