[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: La Quinta Ridge Mobile Estates, Indio, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Elevated levels of chemical contaminant found in La Quinta Ridge mobile 
home park's water supply

Residents supplied 2 gallons a day

Marcel Honoré
The Desert Sun (CA)
July 24, 2008

INDIO - Owners of an Indio mobile home park have until Aug. 18 to 
present a plan to clean up the park's water supply after its well tested 
high for levels of a substance found in explosives.

State and local environmental officials running tests last month at the 
La Quinta Ridge Mobile Estates found higher-than-allowed levels of a 
chemical contaminant, perchlorate, in a well serving some 350 residents.

...

The California Department of Health established in October a maximum of 
6 parts-per-billion for perchlorate in state water supplies. The recent 
samples from the Indio mobile home park showed 7 parts per billion. 
Samples taken as far back as December 2004 showed the equivalent of 6.4 
parts per billion of perchlorate.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mydesert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080724/NEWS07/807240350/-1/newsfront

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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