[CPEO-BIF] Marshall, North Carolina abandons new wells due to TCE from unknown source

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contaminated wells cause $30,000 loss for Marshall


by Melissa Dean
Asheville Citizen-Times (NC)
June 13, 2012  |


MARSHALL - Two water wells have been capped and deemed unusable after  
town officials detected high levels of groundwater contamination at  
the sites.

Test results have yielded high levels of the contaminant  
trichloroethylene contained within two well sites which officials had  
once hoped to tie onto the Marshall water system in an attempt to end  
the development moratorium.

"The two wells, which the town spent grant money on drilling, and we  
thought were going to be highly successful and productive, are not  
going to be," town attorney Larry Leake told Marshall aldermen. "They  
will be capped and permanently closed."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20120614/NEWS/306140036/ 
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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