[CPEO-BIF] Dry cleaning site, Wichita, Kansas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State officials addressing contaminated water issue

By Brian Miller
KSN TV News (Wichita, KS)
April 9, 2014,

WICHITA, Kan. - State officials are meeting with west side Wichitans  
after contaminated groundwater was found from a dry cleaning business  
nearby.

Right now, a state fund is paying to clean up the groundwater in the  
area around Wilbur Middle School. That is where state officials will  
be meeting with residents to go over the details of the cleanup.

...

About 40 Wichita families who use well water recently found out it’s  
been contaminated, and the source of the chemical dates back at least  
two decades.

The state health department calls the area starting near Central and  
Tyler heading north to Kellogg and slanting across Tyler to the south  
an “area of concern.” So far, 87 wells have been tested and 39 showed  
levels of tetrachloroethylene ...


...

For the entire story, see
http://ksn.com/2014/04/09/state-officials-addressing-contaminated- 
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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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