[CPEO-MEF] DC perchlorate

["lsiegel@cpeo.org" <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Groundwater Toxin Found at Additional D.C. Sites
Officials Want to Know if Contaminant, Detected at High Levels, Could Reach
Reservoir

By Susan Levine
Washington Post 
February 18, 2006

More testing for groundwater problems in Northwest Washington neighborhoods
where the U.S. Army researched chemical weapons during World War I has
found new locations of perchlorate contamination, at some of the highest
levels detected to date, according to officials.

Undetermined is whether the contamination could end up in the Dalecarlia
Reservoir or the Washington Aqueduct, both of which supply drinking water
to more than 1 million people in the metropolitan area.

The three federal and city agencies involved in a multimillion-dollar
cleanup of the Spring Valley community released data this week that showed
elevated perchlorate concentrations in a monitoring well near the reservoir
and in two other wells adjacent to where ordnance and laboratory glassware
were dumped during the heyday of the Army's American University Experiment
Station.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/17/AR2006021702
033.html

-- 
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
http://www.cpeo.org


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