The Santa Clara Valley Water District is hosting an
informational meeting in San Mart
Ãn on Wednesday, Feb. 12, to update south Santa Clara County
residents about potential effects of perchlorate that could affect
hundreds of private drinking water wells.
The Santa Clara Valley Water District is hosting an informational meeting in San MartÃn on Wednesday, Feb. 12, to update south Santa Clara County residents about potential effects of perchlorate that could affect hundreds of private drinking water wells.
The meeting will discuss the cause of the contamination, potential health effects, agricultural concerns and future potential cleanup strategies to safeguard residents. The district has invited representatives from the county’s public health office, the county’s agricultural commissioner’s office, the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, University of California Cooperative Extension Office and other agencies to attend.
The meeting will be from7-9 p.m. in San MartÃn-Gwinn Elementary School, 100 North St. (off San MartÃn Avenue, one block east of Monterey Highway), San MartÃn.
What the district suspects may be a plume of perchlorate was discovered earlier this month in the course of a state investigation into contamination remaining from a former road flare-manufacturing firm that operated in south Morgan Hill from 1955-97.
The suspected plume – roughly bounded by Tennant Avenue to the north, Masten Avenue to the south, Monterey Highway to the west and Center Avenue to the east – could affect as many as 450 private wells supplying drinking water to roughly 2,000 residents.
