Arizona Governor concerned about Colorado River

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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Governor to push for joint clean-up of Colorado River

By HOWARD FISCHER
Capitol Media Services
Arizona Daily Sun
April 15, 2004

PHOENIX -- Gov. Janet Napolitano says she will meet "as soon as
possible" with the state's congressional delegation to find ways to halt
pollution flowing into the Colorado River.

The governor, reacting to a report by American Rivers naming the
Colorado as the most threatened in the country, said she takes little
comfort from the report that the water remains safe to drink because it
is treated.

"That does not relieve us of our responsibility to look at the long term
health and quality of that water because it is life sustaining to so
many millions in Arizona and in the lower basin states," Napolitano
said.

The report by the conservation group found that an facility where rocket
fuel is manufactured continues to dump more than 400 pounds of ammonium
perchlorate into the river every day.

Napolitano said tests showed perchlorate levels below Hoover Dam as high
as 24 parts per billion, nearly twice as high as state guidelines permit.

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for the entire story, see
http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=85532

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 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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