[CPEO-MEF] Olin Says Perchlorate Cleanup Plan Too Expensive (San Martin, CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Olin Corp. Says Cleanup Plan is Too Expensive

By Tony Burchyns
Gilroy Dispatch
December 8, 2006

Morgan Hill - Olin Corporation's latest cleanup plan argues that 
removing every ton of perchlorate it's dumped into the water basin would 
"adversely affect groundwater management" and would be "inconsistent 
with the maximum benefit to the people of the state."

The 138-page report also states a total cleanup of the South Valley 
water table, from which more than 1,500 wells draw water, could 
"unreasonably affect present and anticipated beneficial uses of the 
water" and would result in "water quality less than that prescribed" in 
the Water Quality Control Plan for the Central Coast Region.

Olin is responsible for a nine-mile plume of perchlorate stretching 
south from the company's old road-flare plant in Morgan Hill. 
Perchlorate is known to interfere with the natural function of the 
thyroid gland. The contamination, first reported in 2003, spreads from 
Olin's old site on Tennant Avenue and travels southeast of U.S. 101 to 
Masten Avenue.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/contentview.asp?c=200290

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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
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