[CPEO-BIF] Dickson County (TN) TCE

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Flakes leave county amid water issues 

New water lines nearly completed

By Teri Burton
Dickson Herald (TN)
July 29, 2005

Ray and Cathy Flake are leaving Dickson County, but not because they
want to.

The Flakes and their six children are in the process of moving from
their five-bedroom, four-bath home on 22 acres on Bruce Road in Dickson
after they discovered Bruce Spring was contaminated and they were in the
risk area for water contamination from the old Dickson County Landfill.

"That was our dream home," Ray Flake said. "We subcontracted most of the
work out but there was a lot of blood, sweat and tears that went into
that house. It breaks our hearts but with all the things that have gone
on we don?t have a choice."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dicksonherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050729/MTCN0201/307290024/1297/MTCN02

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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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