[CPEO-BIF] Copley Township (OH) VOCs

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Couple's patience running dry

By Bob Downing
Akron Beacon Journal (OH)
August 19, 2007

COPLEY TWP.: Eugene Smith is frustrated. He wants the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency to pay for hooking his house up to city of Akron 
drinking water.

Nearly 13 years ago, the federal agency installed devices in Smith's 
home and seven neighboring houses in Copley Township with polluted wells 
to remove toxic chemicals from the drinking water.

...

The contaminated aquifer was the initial problem. But officials now fear 
that contaminants moving through the soil as gases might be a greater 
threat to residents, including those in Copley Meadows condominiums.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.ohio.com/news/9242951.html

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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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