[CPEO-BIF] "Source for Limerick [Pennsylvania] well contamination still uncertain"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Source for Limerick well contamination still uncertain

By Evan Brandt

Pottstown Mercury (PA)
July 17,2013

LIMERICK - A well sample on a chemically contaminated site on Ridge  
Pike showed pollution levels 832 times the government safe drinking  
water standard.

However, state officials are still not sure the site is the source of  
the pollution that has fouled 22 area wells and will result in carbon  
filtration systems being installed in five homes as part of an effort  
to protect residents from the pollutionâs effects.

The test result - 4,160 parts per billion - was revealed during  
Wednesday nightâs public hearing on the Pennsylvania Department of  
Environmental Protectionâs proposed âinterim solutionâ to the  
groundwater pollution problem at what it is calling the âLandis  
Creek Site.â

The test was taken at the location of a former heating equipment  
company known as Roll Form on West Ridge Pike.
...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pottsmerc.com/article/20130717/NEWS01/130719337/source-for- 
limerick-well-contamination-still-uncertain

See also
http://www.pottsmerc.com/article/20130717/NEWS01/130719452/limerick- 
hearing-today-to-focus-on-well-contamination

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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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