Table 4: Sites Where Top Soil or Ground Water is Contaminated by Perchlorate

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Rocket Fuel in Drinking Water: Table 4: Sites Where Top Soil or Ground Water is Contaminated by Perchlorate

March 3, 2003

Table 4. More than 50 sites nationwide have high levels of perchlorate contamination of ground water or soil.

State	City	Facility	Source of contamination	Type of contamination	Maximum concentration (ppb)
AL	Huntsville	Redstone Arsenal Missile Plant	Explosives production	Ground Water	19,000
AZ	Benson	Apache Nitrogen Products	Explosives manufacturing	Ground Water	670
AZ	Chandler, Gila River Indian Reservation	Aerodyne	Propellant testing	Ground Water	18
AZ	Tucson	Davis Monthan Air Force Base	Explosives/ propellant disposal	Soil	NA
AZ	Goodyear, Phoenix Goodyear Airport	Unidynamics Phoenix, Inc.	Explosives/ ordnance manufacturing	Ground Water	80
AZ	Phoenix	Universal Propulsion	Rocket manufacturing	Soil	NA
AZ	Maricopa County	Unidynamics Phoenix, Inc. White Tanks Disposal Area	Explosives/ ordnance disposal	Soil	NA
AR	East Camden	Atlantic Research	Rocket manufacturing and disposal- open burn/open detonation	Ground Water	2,000,000
				Surface Water	480,000
				Soil	1,000,000
CA	Glen Avon	Grand Central Rocket	Dumping at Stringfellow toxic waste dump	Ground Water	87,000
CA	Yuba City	Beale AFB	Titan missile production		NA
CA	Rancho Cordova and Mather Air Force Base	Aerojet General	Rocket manufacturing	Ground Water	640,000
CA	Lincoln	Alpha explosives	Explosives manufacturing	Ground Water	67,000
CA	Santa Susana	Boeing/Rocketdyne, NASA at Santa Susana Field Lab US DOE	Rocket research, testing and production	Ground Water	750
CA	Edwards	Edwards Air Force Base, Jet Propulsion Lab, North Base	Rocket research	Ground Water	300
CA	Orange County	El Toro Marine Corps Air Station	Explosives disposal	Ground Water	380
CA	Tracy	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Site 300	US Department of Energy explosives research	Ground Water	84
CA	Redlands	Lockheed Propulsion	Rocket manufacturing	Ground Water	NA
CA	Pasadena	NASA Jet Propulsion Lab	Rocket research	Ground Water	6,000
CA	Rialto	B.F. Goodrich and/or Fireworks Facility	Rocket research and manufacturing and/or fireworks manufacture	Ground Water	NA
CA	Glendale	Grand Central Rocket	Rocket manufacturing	Ground Water	84
CA	Baldwin Park	Aerojet General	Rocket manufacturing	Ground Water	2,180
CA	San Nicholas Island, Ventura County	US Navy Firing Range	Explosives	Ground Water	NA
CA	San Jose	United Technologies (UTC)	Rocket testing	Ground Water	180,000
CA	Santa Clarita	Whittaker-Bermite Ordnance	Ordnance manufacturing	Surface Water	3,000
CA	Hollister	Whittaker Ordnance	Ordnance manufacturing	Ground Water	810
IA	Ewart	Unknown	Unknown	Ground Water	29
IA	Napier	Unknown	Unknown	Ground Water	10
KS	Herington	Ammunition Facility	Ammunition	Ground Water	9
MA	Bourne	Massachusetts Military Reservation	Rocket disposal- open burn/open detonation	Ground Water	300
MD	Indian Head	Naval Surface Warfare Center	Propellant handling	Surface Water	>1000
MD	Aberdeen	Aberdeen Proving Ground	Unknown	Ground Water	24
MO	Joplin	ICI Explosives	Unknown	Ground Water	107,000
MO	Independence	Lake City Army Ammunition Facility	Ammunition	Ground Water	79
NE	Mead	Unknown	Fireworks facility	Ground Water	24
NM	Gallup	Fort Windgate Depot Activity	Explosives disposal	Ground Water	2,860
NM	Alamogordo	Hollomon Air Force Base	Rocket testing	Ground Water	40
				Surface Water	16,000
NM	Los Alamos	Los Alamos National Lab	US DOE lab chemicals	Ground Water	1,662
				Surface Water	NA
NM	White Rock	Los Alamos National Lab	US DOE lab chemicals	Surface Water	9
NM	Melrose	Melrose Air Force Range	Explosives	Ground Water	25
NM	White Sands	White Sands Missile Range	Rocket testing	Ground Water	21,000
NV	Henderson	Kerr-McGee/BMI	Perchlorate manufacturing	Ground Water	3,700,000
				Surface Water	120,000
NV	Henderson	American Pacific Corp/PEPCON	Perchlorate manufacturing	Ground Water	600,000
NY	Westhampton	Unknown	Unknown	Ground Water	3370
NY	Yaphank	Unknown	Unknown	Ground Water	122
TX	Karnak	Longhorn Army Ammunition Depot	Munitions manufacture, Propellant handling	Ground Water	169,000
				Surface Water	11,000
TX	McGregor	McGregor Naval Weapons Plant	Propellant handling	Ground Water	91,000
				Surface Water	22,000
TX	Amarillo	Pantex (Department of Energy)	Open burning/ Open detonation, Explosives	Ground Water	5
TX	Texarkana	Red River Army Depot	Open burning/ Open detonation, Propellant handling	Ground Water	80
TX	Texarkana	Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant	Open burning/ Open detonation, Propellant handling	Ground Water	NA
UT	Magna	Alliant Tech Systems	Rocket manufacturing	Ground Water	13
UT	Kennecott	Alliant Tech Systems	Rocket manufacturing	Ground Water	5
UT	Promontory	Thiokol	Rocket manufacturing	Ground Water	NA
WA	near Vancouver	Camp Bonneville	Explosives/propellant disposal	Soil	NA
WV	Rocket Center	Allegheny Ballistics Lab	Rocket research production, open burn/open detonation	Surface Water	400

NA = not available.

Source: EWG 2003

References:

Associated Press (AP). 2003. Army wants company to pay for Redstone cleanup. January 20, 2003.
Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR). ND. Public Health Assessment: Longhorn Army Ammunition Plant. Karnack, Harrison County, Texas.
Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger (CFSWAB). 2002. The potential for perchlorate contamination. A case study: Badger Army Ammunition Plant. May 2002. Merrimac, WI.
Clean Water Report (CWR). 2002. Possible perchlorate lessons to learn as pollutant progresses to city wells; Maryland. August 12, 2002.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). 2001. Memorandum re: Perchlorate occurrence table and maps. March 2, 2001.
McGuire, K. 2001. Rocket fuel peril studied Arkansas site's concentration among top in US. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, August 12, 2001.
Oswald, M. 2002. Springs tested for chemical. Albuquerque Journal. January 29, 2002.
Robertson, J. 2003. Another toxin found in wells at Lake City cleanup site. Kansas City Star. January 28, 2003.
Speckman, S. 2001. Plume of 'dirty' water is moving. The Desert News. June 18, 200.
Tollefson, J. 2003. Contaminated spring found near LANL. The Santa Fe New Mexican, February 9, 2003.

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