[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Barstow Marine Corpse Logistics Base (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Barstow area water unsafe for drinking

From Staff Reports
Barstow Desert Dispatch (CA)
November 19, 2010

BARSTOW - Golden State Water Company is warning all customers in the 
Barstow area not to drink local water until further notice.

On Thursday, Golden State discovered that water samples taking at the 
Marine Corpse Logistics Base showed levels of perchlorates above the 
maximum contaminant level of 6 parts per billion.

Subsequent sample from outside the base and in wells within the Barstow 
area also indicated higher levels of perchlorates than permitted.

Barstow's water may still be used for non-drinking purposes.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.desertdispatch.com/news/barstow-9726-unsafe-water.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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