[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: Well contaminated in Calverton, NY

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[I don't believe EPA or any other agency has classified perchlorate  
as a carcinogen. - LS]

One of Riverhead Water District’s newest wells offline, needs costly  
system to remove contaminant perchlorate

by Denise Civiletti
Riverhead Local (NY)
January 5, 2015

One of Riverhead Water District's newest wells is producing water  
contaminated with perchlorate, a chemical known to affect the human  
endocrine system and considered by the U.S. Environmental Protection  
Agency a "likely human carcinogen."

Well 16, located off Edwards Avenue north of Route 25 in Calverton,  
completed in 2011 at a total cost of more than $2 million, has been  
taken offline pending installation of a treatment system expected to  
cost as much as $555,000.

...

The source of the perchlorate contamination is not known for sure but  
the water district engineers believe fertilizers are to blame, Walter  
said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.riverheadlocal.com/2015/01/05/one-riverhead-water- 
districts-newest-wells-offline-needs-costly-system-remove-contaminant- 
perchlorate/

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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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