[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Camp Edwards (MA) finds 9 ppb

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

High levels of perchlorate detected in well

By George Brennan
Cape Cod Times (MA)
October 13, 2011

CAMP EDWARDS — Perchlorate more than four times the safe drinking  
water level was detected in a monitoring well on the western boundary  
of the Massachusetts Military Reservation, a cleanup official said  
Wednesday night.

Perchlorate was detected at 9 parts per billion, Ben Gregson,  
remediation manager for the Army Impact Area Groundwater Study  
Program, told a meeting of the MMR Cleanup Team. Perchlorate is a  
contaminant from explosives and fireworks that has an adverse affect  
on pregnant women and small children.

The monitoring well is 3,600 feet from a proposed municipal well,  
Gregson said. The Bourne Water District is currently seeking permits  
for that well inside the boundary of the military reservation and has  
been informed of the discovery, he said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20111013/NEWS/ 
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