[CPEO-MEF] Massachusetts promises perchlorate standard

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

(One of these days, one of these predictions will turn our to be
correct.  - LS)

State to issue limits for base pollutant

By AMANDA LEHMERT
Cape Cod Times (MA)
February 21, 2006

The state will publish drinking water and hazardous waste cleanup
standards for perchlorate within a month, according to Department of
Environmental Protection Commissioner Robert Gollege.

If the proposed standards become legal, Massachusetts would be the first
state in the nation to have such standards for perchlorate - a salt of
perchloric acid.

About seven groundwater plumes of perchlorate have been discovered
flowing under the Massachusetts Military Reservation, caused by
pyrotechnics and military activity at the National Guard base.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/cctimes/stateto21.htm

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