[CPEO-BIF] Dutchess County (NY) well-testing rule

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dutchess health board OKs well-testing rule

By Dan Shapley
Poughkeepsie Journal (NY)
June 17, 2005

Landlords and home sellers or buyers will need to show their wells meet
safe drinking water standards about this time next year, under a rule
approved Thursday by the Dutchess County Board of Health.

Well tests cost between $125-$525 now. A new fee for well permits has
yet to be set.

The rule will alert home buyers to any contaminants in their wells and
provide data about pockets of potentially harmful contamination that
aren't identified now.

A provision that would have required tests of wells at commercial
properties was removed so the board could gather more public feedback.

The drive to mandate well tests began five years ago with a group of
East Fishkill residents whose wells were tainted with
tetrachloroethylene, a colorless, odorless and potentially harmful chemical.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050617/NEWS01/506170325/1006

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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