[CPEO-BIF] Machlett Laboratories site, Springdale, Connecticut

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New wells traced to old problems in Springdale

By Angela Carella
Stamford Advocate (CT)
December 9, 2009


A landfill that may be contaminating residential wells in one part of 
Stamford is making headlines, stirring up old concerns in another 
neighborhood.

Just as the Scofieldtown Road landfill predates most of the homes in 
North Stamford, Springdale grew up around Machlett Laboratories, once a 
thriving manufacturing plant on Hope Street. Machlett was high-tech in 
its day, producing X-ray and television tubes and sensitive equipment 
used in medicine, space exploration and warfare -- including parts for 
the atomic bomb.

As the city installs water lines to 100 homes with tainted wells in 
North Stamford, Springdale residents over the last couple of weeks have 
noticed trucks drilling holes at Greenway and Ryan streets, in the block 
thatonce was the site of the Machlett plant.

It now is the parking lot for Stamford Twin Rinks, and the drilling is 
part of regular testing ordered by the state Department of Environmental 
Protection when the Raytheon Co. of Massachusetts sold the property to 
rink developers about five years after the Machlett plant closed in 1989.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/ci_13955949?source=most_emailed

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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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