[CPEO-BIF] Good Oil Company plume, New Hanover, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

DEP: Chemical in New Hanover wells unexpected from petroleum spill  
(video)

By Evan Brandt
Pottstown Mercury (PA)
April 18, 2012


NEW HANOVER - State officials are still unsure how a complicated  
mixture of dangerous organic chemicals made their way into a handful  
of drinking water wells along Route 663 they told an audience of  
roughly 70 residents and officials who attended a public hearing  
Tuesday night at Boyertown Area Junior High East.

Officials from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental  
Protection are focusing on the site of the former Good Oil Company,  
near the intersection of Layfield and Hoffmansville road, where  
dozens of tanks ranging in size and contents have been located for  
years.

While they were not surprised to find contaminants associated with  
petroleum products - like benzene and MTBE - they are less sure how a  
concentration of chemicals known as “volatile organic compounds”  
found their way into the water on the site, as well as into five  
wells in nearby homes.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.pottsmerc.com/article/20120418/NEWS01/120419405/1007/'. 
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spill-(video)

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
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