[CPEO-BIF] Perc plume at Hockessin, Delaware

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tainted Hockessin water under scrutiny

by Jeff Montgomery
Wilmington News Journal (DE)
October 20, 2014

Hockessin residents will get a briefing on groundwater contamination  
possibly linked to a local business and quiz state regulators about  
the lack of notification about the longstanding problem.

The reports, scheduled for release at Monday night's meeting of the  
Greater Hockessin Area Development Association, will focus on homes  
and groundwater around the Shoppes of Hockessin along Lancaster Pike  
southeast of Valley Road. Investigators are assessing leaks or spills  
from what is now Sunrise Cleaners, as well as other potential sources  
of pollution.

The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control  
recently directed the Shoppes' owners to pay for carbon water filters  
at two homes along Evanson Road, nearly a half-mile south of the  
commercial property. Both have wells with water containing more than  
the state's limit for a common dry cleaning solvent, called "Perc" or  
tetrachloroethylene, though levels are lower than the federal standard.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2014/10/19/hockessin- 
groundwater-contamination-scrutiny/17580025/

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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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