I don't think that we have heard the last of some type of a perchlorate cycle Winston.
on a side note of Perchlorates, is iron. Its seems that although Salt, can be benifical in some types of the microbial breakdown of perchlorate, if IRON is present, it can Kill the proccess. How,.. is the interesting part.
It Coats the microbes, in Iron, sufficating them.