[CPEO-BIF] Northern Delaware groundwater contamination

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Special Report: Delaware Drinking Water at Risk
What you haven't been told about chemicals polluting the aquifer that 
serves Del., Md., N.J.

By JEFF MONTGOMERY
Wilmington News Journal (DE)
July 25, 2010


Tainted groundwater is spreading across thousands of acres in northern 
Delaware and has reached the Potomac Aquifer, which supplies drinking 
water to people across much of Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey.

In some areas of the upper Potomac near Delaware City and New Castle, 
concentrations of benzene, vinyl chloride and chlorinated benzenes are 
so high that exposure poses an immediate health threat. Elevated levels 
of these industrial byproducts significantly increase the risks of 
cancer. Sustained exposure could kill.

Northern Delaware is home to some of the worst chemical dumping grounds 
in America, a legacy of broken promises and corporate misdeeds. 
Regulators working for Delaware and the U.S. Environmental Protection 
Agency have long claimed that the deep clay layers above the aquifer 
protected it from the foul waters discharged by chemical and petroleum 
manufacturers.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100725/NEWS02/7250361/Delaware-s-Drinking-Water-at-Risk

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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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