[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Barstow (CA) fireworks cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA to remove contaminated soil that triggered Barstow water emergency

by Phil Willon
Los Angeles Times
December 3, 2012

Federal environmental officials this week will begin excavating 1,100  
tons of perchlorate-laced soil from a former Barstow fireworks  
manufacturing site that contaminated the city’s drinking water supply  
in November 2010.

The contamination led to a temporary ban on water use in Barstow just  
before Thanksgiving that year, leading the governor to declare a  
state of emergency and forcing residents to stockpile bottled water.  
The town’s water utility, Golden State Water Co., was forced to flush  
the city’s water system.

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For the entire article, see
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/12/epa-to-removed- 
ontaminated-soil-that-led-to-barstow-water-emergency-.html

See also http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/ 
df626bb65d413ee085257ac900827244

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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