[CPEO-BIF] Antrim County, Michigan TCE plume

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic plume may still threaten water

BY SHERI MCWHIRTER
Traverse City Record Eagle (MI)
April 02, 2009


MANCELONA -- A water main project in Antrim County that's provided safe 
drinking water for a community confronted by an enormous toxic 
groundwater plume likely won't fully address the contamination.

In 2007, a $2 million state grant paid for a 25,000-foot extension to an 
existing public water main in Mancelona to offer safe water for 80 homes 
and hundreds of vacant lots at Shanty Creek Resort, a spot threatened 
with water tainted by tricholoethylene, or TCE.

That work is done, but a recent state study shows the plume may yet 
contaminate drinking water as it migrates.

Ray Karabin and his wife, Marguerite, miss their "sweet water" well, but 
chose to hook up to the public water main, as did many of their neighbors.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.record-eagle.com/local/local_story_092221138.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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