[CPEO-BIF] Mountain Top, Pennsylvania TCE report

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Report: Contaminated groundwater no threat to Mountain Top residents

BILL WELLOCK
Wilkes-Barre Citizens-Voice (PA)
August 18, 2010

The groundwater around Church Road in Mountain Top is still 
contaminated, but a report concludes the residents aren't at risk.

A report from the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the Agency for 
Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, a federal public health agency, 
says exposure to chemicals from the site is not expected to pose a risk 
to residents, because most residents get their water from the public supply.

"Residential well water samples collected in 2004 showed levels of TCE 
(trichloroethylene) above the current Environmental Protection Agency's 
maximum contaminant level (MCL), for drinking water. However, since 
2004, the residents have been supplied with alternative drinking water 
and subsequently hooked up to public water supply, with the exception of 
one residential property, and are not a current pathway of exposure."

...

For the entire article, see
http://citizensvoice.com/news/report-contaminated-groundwater-no-threat-to-mountain-top-residents-1.955951

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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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