[CPEO-MEF] Perchlorate goal and Camp Edwards (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Watered down

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
January 28, 2006

The federal Environmental Protection Agency has released guidelines for
perchlorate that would allow several plumes of the chemical in
groundwater under the Massachusetts Military Reservation to go uninvestigated.

The guidelines, which were issued in tandem with a similar advisory from
the Defense Department, advised local environmental officials to use
24.5 parts per billion as a "preliminary cleanup goal" for perchlorate
in groundwater.

In the absence of federal or state drinking water standards for
perchlorate - which would legally force polluters to clean up
contamination - the new guidelines will be used by environmental
regulators as a basis for what level of contamination must be investigated.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/watereddown28.htm

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Lenny Siegel
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