[CPEO-BIF] The cost of public water, Harford County, Maryland

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Tainted water creates a divide
Harford neighbors split over linking to public system

By Mary Gail Hare
Baltimore Sun
October 16, 2007


The discovery of a toxic industrial solvent in wells in a Harford County 
subdivision has prompted officials to put together a $2.2 million plan 
to connect the entire 84-home community to a public water supply.

The plan, however, has divided residents - some of whom oppose the cost 
of adding their homes to the public system.

The Maryland Department of the Environment began testing wells in the 
Glenn Heights community near Havre de Grace two years ago, when a U.S. 
40 shopping center nearby was razed and traces of trichloroethylene, a 
volatile organic compound often used as a cleaning solvent, were 
detected in the soil.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/harford/bal-te.md.ha.neighbors16oct16,0,483193.story?page=2&coll=bal_tab01_layout

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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