[CPEO-MEF] Santa Clara Valley perchlorate cleanup bill

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

House passes bill for groundwater cleanup in Santa Clara Valley


Associated Press
San Jose Mercury News (CA)
March 14, 2005

WASHINGTON - The House of Representatives on Monday passed a bill to 
spend $25 million cleaning up groundwater in the Santa Clara Valley 
that's contaminated with perchlorate.

The bill by Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy, would address contamination in 
water supplies for some 80,000 residents of Morgan Hill, Gilroy and an 
unincorporated community in between. Cleanup costs to rid the water of 
the toxin, a common byproduct of defense and industrial manufacturing, 
have been estimated as high as $150 million.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/11135524.htm

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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