[CPEO-BIF] Millsboro, DE TCE

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Sussex toxic water cleanup may be $10 million
Millsboro well contamination spreading, DNREC says

By JEFF MONTGOMERY
Wilmington News Journal (DE)
June 23, 2007

Solvent-tainted wells in Millsboro could drain as much as $10 million 
from a Delaware pollution cleanup fund -- more than 10 percent of 
expected spending for efforts statewide through 2012, state documents show.

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control officials hope 
to quickly shift the costs to those responsible for the contamination of 
trichlorethylene, or TCE. But agency planners said the fast-moving plume 
requires immediate action because it threatens shallow aquifers, public 
and private wells and nearby waterways.

Officials also are monitoring risks in buildings above the contamination 
as small amounts of toxic vapors trickle upward through the soil.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007706230359

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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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