[CPEO-BIF] Milford Cleaning Village, Milford, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Groundwater contamination found in Milford
After a common dry cleaning solvent was found in the ground, wells are 
being drilled to determine how far it spread

By Frank Juliano
Connecticut Post
June 4, 2009

MILFORD -- Three test wells dug Wednesday at the Robert Treat Apartments 
will determine the extent of groundwater contamination from a 
long-closed dry cleaner.

Milford Cleaning Village operated at 987-995 Bridgeport Ave. for decades 
before closing in 2004. The apartment complex is directly behind the 
shuttered business.

"I've lived here 35 years and they were open went I got here," said Herb 
Batterson, a resident of the 124-unit complex.

Test wells on the dry cleaner's property and at the Treat Apartments 
have found elevated levels of a common dry-cleaning solvent, said Dennis 
Schain, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.connpost.com/ci_12511355

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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
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