[CPEO-MEF] Pasadena (CA), NASA debate perchlorate source

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

NASA, city tangle Over water cleanup

By Joe Piasecki
Pasadena Weekly (CA)
June 14, 2007

As they prepare to push a voluntary water conservation program, Pasadena 
Water and Power officials are challenging a NASA study which concludes 
that the dumping of rocket fuel by the US Army some 50 years ago at the 
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) did not cause pollution now making much 
of the city's groundwater undrinkable.

Perchlorate, a rocket fuel component polluting nine of the city's 16 
underground drinking wells, can affect function of the hormone-producing 
thyroid gland — important for a healthy metabolism in adults and 
essential to skeletal and nervous system development in infants and fetuses.

With more than half of local groundwater resources deemed unsafe by 
federal health standards and no relief from a nine-year drought (see 
“Low boil” on page 11) in sight, PWP will in the next few weeks launch a 
campaign to encourage voluntary cutbacks in water consumption, said 
Water Division Director Shan Kwan. PWP currently imports more than half 
of the drinking water it provides.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pasadenaweekly.com/article.php?id=4767&IssueNum=76

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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