[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: San Gabriel Valley (CA) water treatment interrupted

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tap water safe again in Baldwin Park, La Puente areas following  
contamination

By Brian Day and Rebecca Kimitch
San Gabriel Valley Tribune (CA)
March 10, 2012

San Gabriel Valley Water Company customers in the Baldwin Park and La  
Puente areas were left without drinking water for more than a day  
after a failure at a groundwater treatment facility earlier  
contaminated the system with perchlorate, a rocket fuel additive.

Customers were advised Saturday it was safe again to drink their tap  
water after the system had been flushed of the toxic chemical,  
President Bob Nicholson said Saturday morning.
"We got the sample results back indicating the water is clean," he said.

The contamination was discovered Thursday afternoon during weekly  
testing. Nicholson said the high perchlorate levels could have been  
in the water for days before it was discovered.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.sgvtribune.com/news/ci_20148055/tap-water-safe-again- 
baldwin-park-la-puente

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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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