[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Lake Mead cleanup "successful"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Lake Mead cleanup proves successful

EPA, water officials cooperate to reduce levels of perchlorate

By KEITH ROGERS
Las Vegas Review-Journal (NV)
May 7, 2008

While environmental officials in other states have been bickering over 
who is responsible for cleaning up contamination from the rocket fuel 
ingredient, perchlorate, and to what level, water quality officials in 
Nevada have blazed a trail to follow.

J.C. Davis, a spokesman for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, credits 
the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection with spearheading the 
cleanup effort that has dramatically reduced levels of it in Lake Mead 
since it was first discovered there a decade ago.

He said the turning point came when hydrologists were able pinpoint 
locations where the contamination was entering Las Vegas Wash, which 
empties into Lake Mead, Southern Nevada's primary drinking water source.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.lvrj.com/news/18721249.html

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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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