[CPEO-BIF] Mottolo Pig Farm, Raymond, New Hampshire

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contamination Forces Raymond To Avoid Water
State Delivers Bottled Water To Residents In Windmere Development

WMUR TV 9 News (NH)
September 9, 2009

RAYMOND, N.H. -- State officials have told a neighborhood in Raymond to 
drink and cook with bottled water after the discovery of low levels of 
contamination from a nearby toxic waste site in nearby wells.

....

The DES is taking action because it detected two contaminants in local 
wells: trichloroethylene (TCE) and arsenic. The state suspects the TCE 
is leaching into the drinking water from the Mottolo Pig Farm -- now an 
overgrown forest. The farm is an Environmental Protection Agency 
superfund site where the former owner buried chemical manufacturing 
waste in the 1970s.

"It's our assessment, at this point, that more than likely the 
additional pumping stresses that were placed on the bedrock aquifer by 
the development in the area resulted in drawing the plume of 
contaminants in that direction," Wimsatt said.

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.wmur.com/news/20824301/detail.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>
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