Fireworks and Perchlorate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Fireworks being eyed as source of pollution 
Testing at Dartmouth site will help determine if festivities are
tainting the groundwater. 

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
September 4, 2004

DARTMOUTH - With every pop, bang, and boom of the Labor Day fireworks
display at the University of Massachusetts campus, perchlorate will be
flying through the air.

But what goes up must come down. And what comes down, the state
Department of Environmental Protection worries, has the potential to
wind up in local drinking supplies.

The DEP has began one of the first scientific studies to determine
whether all the oohs and ahhs lead to undrinkable water. 

State workers will take soil and groundwater samples around the
Dartmouth campus before and after Monday's fireworks display, to help
determine whether the chemical could be reaching the groundwater. 

"We don't want to be the Grinch that stole the Fourth of July," said
John Fitzgerald, the director of response and remediation for the DEP. 

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Lenny Siegel
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