The Water Research Foundation is funding a special project to assess the current state of science related to perchlorate treatment technologies and regulations in the United States.
The Denver-based foundation anticipates new regulations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulating perchlorate in drinking water.
Perchlorate is a chemical primarily used in the manufacturing of explosives and rocket propellants for the defense and aerospace industries. Low levels of ammonium perchlorate have also been found to occur naturally in the environment.
Perchlorate contamination is becoming a widespread concern as sources of such contamination continue to be identified and more sensitive analytical methods are developed that can detect this compound in soil, groundwater, and surface water.
