[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: "Olin continues to clean up local wells, " Morgan Hill, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Olin continues to clean up local wells

by Scott Forstner 
Morgan Hill Times (CA)
March 9, 2016 

A dozen years after authorities discovered a dangerous amount of perchlorate in the groundwater basin and fingered a local company for the widespread contamination, one of the last remaining wells affected is considered safe to drink from.

On Jan. 15, Olin Corporation asked the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control (CCRWQC) Board staff “to terminate water service (i.e., bottled water) for well users associated with well 09S034J003 (in San Martin),” according to a Feb. 15 letter via the CCRWQC board.

“Olin provided the water board staff analytical results to support the determination that the well meets the State Water Board criteria for termination of bottled water service,” CCRWQC Interim Executive Officer Lisa Horowitz-McCann wrote. “Based on Olin’s submission, we concur that the well meets the State Water Board criteria for termination of bottled water service.”

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For the entire article, see
http://www.morganhilltimes.com/news/community/olin-continues-to-clean-up-local-wells/article_d49a36fe-e624-11e5-a1a6-479d8ce19abc.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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