[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: NASA-funded treatment plant in Pasadena, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Opening of NASA-funded water-treatment plant celebrated

By Janette Williams
Pasadena Star News (CA)
October 20, 2011


PASADENA - Raising glasses of perchlorate-free water, city, state,  
federal and NASA officials toasted the official opening of the $8.5  
million Monk Hill Water Treatment Plant in Northwest Pasadena on  
Wednesday.

"It tastes wonderful," said Phyllis Currie, who has overseen what she  
called the "massive clean-up" project during her entire 10-year  
tenure as general manager of Pasadena Water and Power.
"There were days when we were concerned if we could pull it off,"  
Currie said. "This is a day of joy, pride and relief. It was very,  
very hard to bring this project to fruition."

Monk Hill is the third local NASA-funded plant brought on-line to  
treat groundwater contaminated by thousands of pounds of perchlorate  
- a component of rocket fuel - and other volatile compounds that were  
the legacy of experimental work at Jet Propulsion Laboratory during  
World War II.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_19157379

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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