[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE: "Pop-up water treatment plant aims to keep chemical out of the Lake Mead" (NV)

[Lenny Siegel]

Pop-up water treatment plant aims to keep chemical out of the Lake Mead

By Henry Brean 
Las Vegas Review-Journal (NV)
January 4, 2018 

You’ve heard of pop-up stores and pop-up restaurants, but what about a pop-up water treatment plant?

Environmental regulators and water officials gathered Thursday at the Las Vegas Wash to mark the completion of a temporary treatment facility designed to keep pollution from an industrial site in Henderson from seeping into the wash and flowing downstream into Lake Mead and the Colorado River.

The temporary plant near the Clark County Wetlands Park’s Pabco Trailhead went online Tuesday. Over the next 18 months or so, it is expected to remove up to 3 tons of the hazardous chemical perchlorate from contaminated groundwater as it is pumped out of a construction site where the Southern Nevada Water Authority is building two flow-control structures called weirs to curb erosion in the wash.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/henderson/pop-up-water-treatment-plant-aims-to-keep-chemical-out-of-the-lake-mead/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel at cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org