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  • EPA's guidance range is 4-18 ppb;
  • High Exposives Waste Treatment Facility effluent is 4 to 58 ppb;
  • Mortandad Canyon perched water 140 to 400 ppb;
  • DP Canyon core samples 200 to 1000 ppb;
  • In 2003 wastewater from TA-9 over 500 ppb;
  • ".. percholorate is present in shallow, intermediate and deep ground waters underlying the Laboratory." p 4;
  • highly, mobile, persists p. 6;
  • blocks iodide uptake, may also result in thyroid gland tumors p. 7;
  • in June 2000 Los Alamos County water supply well 3.5 ppb p.9;
  • effluent at the Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility was "several hundred ppb" until March 2002. p. 16;
  • Mortandad core samples 300 to 400 ppb down to at least 400 feet;
  • TA 21 200 to 1000 ppb down to 280 feet. p. 20;
  • TA-35 wastewater treatment plant "constantly beset by problems, and inadvertent spills..." p. 21; and
  • standard treatments don't work p.22

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