[CPEO-BIF] Groundwater contamination from John Taylor Fertilizers, El Margarita, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

El Margarita wells face testing after groundwater contamination

By Griffin Rogers
Marysville Appeal-Democrat (CA)
May 20, 2013

When Rick Butler's father became ill in February 2012, he never thought the cause was the well water his parents drank and showered in every day.

He shrugged off a friend's advice to check the family's personal well. His parents had been living in the same house since the '70s, and he refused to believe the water was seriously harming them.

"At that time, like everyone else, I put it on the back burner," he said.

But when his father - a nonsmoker and nondrinker - was diagnosed with liver and lung cancer four months later, Butler realized he might have been wrong, he said. He ordered a water test on his well, but it was too late - Donald Butler died before results showed high amounts of harmful chemicals in his tap water.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.appeal-democrat.com/articles/water-125323-well-father.html

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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
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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