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[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

EPA says Aberdeen site is spreading toxins to area wells

By Michael Zennie

Fayetteville Observer (NC)
September 8, 2011

ABERDEEN - A decades-old chemical spill is likely spreading cancer- 
causing industrial solvents into groundwater outside of Aberdeen at  
levels as much as 86 times federal maximum standards.

The leak is contaminating dozens of wells south of Aberdeen,  
representatives from the Environmental Protection Agency said at a  
meeting Wednesday night.

Two wells that pump water into Aberdeen's town water supply are among  
the sites that have seen elevated levels of trichloroethene, or TCE.  
In 2010, one well registered 7.8 parts per billion. Federal maximum  
standards are 5 parts per billion. State water quality restrictions  
are even more stringent at 3 parts per billion.

...

The EPA suspects the contamination stems from the former Powder Metal  
Products products building off N.C. 211 near Lockey Drive, which used  
TCE to clean metal parts between 1980 and 1995. However, inspectors  
could find no specific source of the contaminants on the site,  
Bornholm said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2011/09/08/1121242?sac=Home

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Lenny Siegel
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