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March 15, 2006
The state Department of Environmental Protection proposed yesterday the nation's toughest standard for perchlorate, a chemical used in explosives that was found in 10 public water sources in 2004. The drinking water limit of 2 parts per billion would be dramatically stricter than a proposed level of 24.5 parts per billion, announced by the US Environmental Protection Agency in January.
The Department of Environmental Protection commissioner, Robert W. Golledge Jr., said the federal limit does not take into account that people can ingest perchlorate from other sources, such as
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