[CPEO-BIF] Testing private wells in Dutchess County, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Here's another case for well-testing law

Editorial
Poughkeepsie Journal (NY)
December 15, 2012

For more than a decade, the Poughkeepsie Journal has pushed and  
prodded Dutchess County lawmakers to approve a comprehensive well- 
testing law, believing it would provide invaluable data, empower  
people to make safer choices, and perhaps ultimately save them from  
severe health hazards.

The county has stubbornly refused to act. Yet, over that time, some  
progress has been made on the municipal level as three towns - East  
Fishkill, Fishkill and Wappinger - have enacted their own laws  
requiring water tests be done on private wells when homes are sold.

Well, lo and behold, the Journal recently has been able to make use  
of that data to reveal important information about contamination  
affecting at least a dozen homeowners in a section of Hopewell Junction.

This is a prime example of why Dutchess County lawmakers, including  
Executive Marc Molinaro, should get forcefully behind such a  
comprehensive well-test law.

...

For the entire editorial, see
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20121216/ 
OPINION01/312160029/Editorial-Here-s-another-case-well-testing-law? 
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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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