[CPEO-BIF] Smitty's Cleaners, Fayetteville, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contaminated well water off Owen Drive has deep roots [The  
Fayetteville Observer, N.C.]


By Andrew Barksdale
Fayetteville Observer (NC)
December 18, 2011

About 2 1/2 years ago, state environmental officials began supplying  
Lloyd Matthews with bottled water after discovering that unsafe  
levels of a suspected carcinogen had seeped into his primary well.

State officials had known about the contamination from Smitty's  
Cleaners on Owen Drive since 1992, but they didn't start notifying  
neighbors until 1999. They finally contacted Matthews in the summer  
of 2009, when a sample revealed his well to have 3.2 times the level  
of tetrachloroethylene, or PCE, that the federal government considers  
safe.

PCE is an odorless dry-cleaning solvent that could cause health  
problems if ingested over a long time. It has been shown to cause  
cancer in laboratory mice.

...

For the entire article, see
http://insurancenewsnet.com/article.aspx?id=315472

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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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