2007 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 24 Jan 2007 22:55:29 -0000
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] Perchlorate fish advisory, Horshoe Lake, Kansas
 
Fish advisory stays


By Jon Ruhlen
Parsons Sun (KS)
January 24, 2007

HALLOWELL - Efforts to clean up chemical contamination in a Cherokee County strip pit seem to be working.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment, along with the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks, issued a fish consumption advisory on Jan. 8 for Horseshoe Lake, in Units 22 and 23 of the Mined Lands Wildlife area, about five miles east of Oswego.

The advisory warns against eating "all aquatic life" in Horseshoe Lake because of perchlorate contamination. Perchlorate is a chemical used in explosives manufacturing.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.parsonssun.com/news/articles/lake012407.shtml

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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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