[CPEO-BIF] Morris Mill area (Maryland) TCE

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Wicomico To Hold Hearing On Morris Mill Public Water Issue

by Joanne Shriner
Maryland Coast Dispatch
September 27, 2013

SALISBURY â The Wicomico County Council voted this month to move the  
possibility of installing a public water supply in the Morris Mill  
area to address polluted water supply to a public hearing.


In 2012, Trichloroethylene (TCE) was detected in polluting well water  
of Morris Mill area residents. ...

During a Wicomico County legislative session on Sept. 17, Wicomico  
County Director of Environmental Health Dennis DiCintio reported,  
based on the quarterly sampling MDE has conducted 77 total wells have  
detections of TCE. That number is up from 70 previously.


Forty-five of those detections are above the maximum contaminate  
level of five ppb. Sixteen wells were found with detections above  
action level of 2.18 ppb, meaning they qualify for activated carbon  
units based on the population inside the residence. Sixteen wells  
with detections below action level of 2.18 ppb, meaning no action is  
required. Seven wells previously non-detected now have detections.  
Since November 2012, concentrations have increased in 30 wells with  
slight decreases in 10.
"That variability is going to continue dependent on groundwater  
movement and use of the water, so those numbers are likely to  
fluctuate as sampling continues," DiCintio said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://mdcoastdispatch.com/2013/09/27/wicomico-to-hold-hearing-on- 
morris-mill-public-water-issue/

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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>
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