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Perchlorate cleanup put in motion
August 18th, 2005 (dailynews.com)
SANTA CLARITA - Local water agencies are stepping up efforts to clean up perchlorate a rocket fuel chemical left by the former Whittaker-Bermite munitions plant from local groundwater.
The Castaic Lake Water Agency, the region's prime water provider, has been working to secure the required state permits and a settlement from the defunct weapons manufacturer to contain the pollutant and to restore municipal wells that have been sealed since 1997 due to contamination.
Fireworks ignite concerns
August 17, 2005 (townonline.com)
The future of fireworks at the Fair could go up in smoke, depending on the results of recent water tests.
Fireworks contain the chemical perchlorate, which can seep into groundwater, causing thyroid problems, especially among women and children.
Perchlorate exposure: tip of the iceberg?
April 2005, (http://www.findarticles.com)
For several years, federal and state agencies have debated over what is an acceptable level of human perchlorate exposure through food and drinking water. Now Food and Drug Administration (FDA) investigators have found the chemical in milk and lettuce from 15 states, including some apparently uncontaminated areas, showing that human exposure may come from more sources than expected. Perchlorate is used mainly in rocket fuel as well as in some fertilizers and explosives. Perchlorate with no anthropogenic source has been found at 20-60 parts per billion (ppb) in West Texas groundwater and in trace amounts in precipitation, says Texas Tech University chemist Purnendu Dasgupta. This suggests atmospheric reactions may create a low background level of perchlorate. Perchlorate disrupts thyroid function by competitively inhibiting iodine uptake in a dose-dependent fashion, with unquantified effects in humans. In a November 2004 agency report, FDA scientists wrote of finding an average 7.76-11.9 ppb perchlorate in about 90% of lettuce samples from Arizona, California, Florida, New Jersey, and Texas. They also found an average of 5.76 ppb in 97% of cow's milk samples collected at stores in 14 states. Until more is known about the health effects of perchlorate and its occurrence in foods, the FDA continues to recommend that people of all ages eat a balanced, healthy diet.
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