[CPEO-BIF] TCE treatment completed, Upper Salford Township, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEP: Upper Salford well water safe to drink

David Hare/Journal Register News Service
Montgomery News (PA)
February 24, 2011

UPPER SALFORD - After more than 10 years, the water from residents’  
wells once again meets safe drinking water standards.


...


In all about 50 wells in the township had been contaminated since  
2000, when the Montgomery County Health Department made its first  
investigation.

Lynda Rebarchak, DEP community relations coordinator, said the  
department proposes to discontinue residential well sampling and  
carbon filter maintenance at homes along Moyer and Thompson roads,  
Joanne and Shady Lane, Sumneytown and Old Sumneytown Pike, Bergey  
Road, Gladys Way and Diminjan Lane.

Residents now have the option of keeping the filtration systems to  
maintain privately, or to have the system removed by DEP.

Rebarchak said the cost of maintaining the system, which includes  
carbon filters, as well as ultra violet and sediment filters, depends  
on the number of people living in the house and how much water they use.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.montgomerynews.com/articles/2011/02/24/ 
souderton_independent/news/doc4d66728c50d50987415651.txt

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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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