[CPEO-MEF] Morgan Hill (CA) perchlorate treatment

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City to scale back perchlorate treatment on its wells


By Slav Kandyba
Morgan Hill Times (CA)
December 28, 2007

MORGAN HILL

Looking to save money and adjust perchlorate water level limits to state 
standards, the Morgan Hill City Council last week voted to stop 
filtering the toxic salt out of municipal wells that have repeatedly 
tested below the level of 6 parts per billion.

As result, the Nordstrom Park Well, located along Nordstrom Avenue east 
of U.S. 101 and one of the city's five municipal wells outfitted with 
the costly ion exchange perchlorate removal system, will no longer have 
it. The city stands to save $267,000 per year, with the largest share 
coming from savings of more than $160,000 per year by no longer treating 
the Nordstrom Well, according to Public Works Director Jim Ashcraft's 
report to the council. Since less testing will be required, the cost of 
testing is predicted to decrease from $70,000 to $23,000 per year.


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For the entire article, see
http://morganhilltimes.com/news/contentview.asp?c=232799

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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