[CPEO-MEF] Olin responsible for Morgan Hill (CA) perchlorate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Olin Responsible For Pollution, Water Board Says

Gilroy Dispatch (CA)
January 30, 2007

Morgan Hill - Olin Corporation is responsible for polluting Morgan 
Hill's water and will have to devise a strategy to clean it up, 
according to recent action by the Central Coast Regional Water Quality 
Control Board.

On Dec. 21, the board amended its cleanup or abatement order for the 
road-flare company, making Olin responsible for perchlorate 
contamination northeast of its defunct Tennant Avenue factory. The board 
found that recent monitoring data from these areas "are substantial 
evidence … that Olin caused or permitted the discharge of waste that has 
migrated east, north, and northeast of the site."

Olin has already been held responsible for an underground plume of 
perchlorate stretching southeast through San Martin from the company's 
old road-flare plant on Tennant Avenue. Perchlorate contamination was 
first reported by the company in February 2001 when it was trying to 
sell the factory.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.gilroydispatch.com/news/contentview.asp?c=204803

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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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