[CPEO-BIF] Quincy (PA) water testing ordnance

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Quincy tightens water testing requirements for developments

By Tyler Miller
Waynesboro Record Herald
June 13, 2007

TOMSTOWN - Longtime residents of Quincy Township can remember the days 
when car oil, antifreeze and other liquids were simply taken out back of 
the garage, house or makeshift junk yard and dumped into the ground.

Those types of practices may have caught up with the township in recent 
months with the discovery of trichloroethylene contamination in Tomstown 
area wells.

More than a dozen wells have been found with TCE - an industrial 
degreaser and suspected human carcinogen - at levels above the maximum 
threshold of 5 parts per billion allowed by the federal government.

In response and as the state Department of Environmental Protection 
conducts an investigation of the TCE's source and migration pattern, 
township supervisors have amended the municipal subdivision ordinance 
relating to water testing for new homes.

The revised ordinance requires developers of major subdivisions to 
complete a more rigorous test well program and a comprehensive 
groundwater feasibility study.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.therecordherald.com/articles/2007/06/13/local_news/news01.txt

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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