[CPEO-MEF] Perchlorate in Salt Lake City (UT)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Downtown Salt Lake City well found tainted with rocket fuel additive
Levels of the contaminant are very low; its health impacts are hotly debated

By Judy Fahys and Jason Bergreen
The Salt Lake Tribune (UT)
June 27, 2007

A popular downtown artesian well is mildly contaminated with 
perchlorate, an additive to rocket and jet fuel whose health impacts are 
hotly debated.

The well, at the corner of 500 East and 800 South in Salt Lake City, has 
been cherished as a pure water source for more than a century. How its 
water might have become contaminated is a mystery, said Florence 
Reynolds, water quality and treatment manager for the Salt Lake City 
public utilities office.

"We don't want to cause a panic," she said, noting that the 
contamination is roughly equal to four drops of perchlorate in an 
Olympic-sized swimming pool.

...

Two water tests at the Artesian Wells Park showed levels about 4.6 parts 
per billion, Reynolds said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_6238778

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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