[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Searching fireworks company owner's home property, Barstow (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

News Releases
U.S. EPA Region 9
March 22, 2011

U.S. EPA begins perchlorate contamination sampling at residence  
associated with former Mojave Pyrotechnics, Inc., site in Barstow

SAN FRANCISCO - This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency  
began collecting surface and subsurface soil samples to test for  
perchlorate contamination at the Poplar Street home of the former  
owner/operator of Mojave Pyrotechnics, Inc., a defunct fireworks  
manufacturing company that operated on North Yucca Street in the  
1980s, in Barstow, California.

"EPA will work with the City of Barstow and the Lahontan Regional  
Water Quality Control Board to determine how much perchlorate is at  
this location," said Jane Diamond, Director of the Superfund Division  
in EPA's Pacific Southwest regional office. "Cleanup of contamination  
at the Poplar Street Site will be based on the outcomes of the March  
sampling. We expect to have more information by the end of May."

After receiving information indicating perchlorate had been buried on  
the property, EPA discovered a white, solid substance in a layer just  
below the ground surface in a garden area adjacent to the residence.  
A sample collected from the layer contained perchlorate. The  
residence is near a private drinking water well that was recently  
discovered to be contaminated with perchlorate. One of EPA's goals in  
this investigation will be to determine whether the site might be a  
source for perchlorate contamination in the groundwater.


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For the entire release, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/ 
0/22b65108190a27058525785b007ddbee?OpenDocument

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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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