[CPEO-BIF] TCE cleanup at poultry vaccine plant, Millsboro, Delaware

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Remediation in the works for Millsboro Superfund site
Clean-up of former poultry vaccine plant site to take 20 years

By Maddy Lauria 
Cape Gazette (DE)
April 26, 2016

MILLSBORO - More than a decade after state officials found elevated levels of trichloroethylene-contaminated ground water in Millsboro, experts with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have unveiled a plan for removing the remaining contamination.

“Your water is perfectly fine and perfectly good to drink. I've personally been drinking it all day,” said EPA remedial program manager Christian Matta, taking a sip of Millsboro tap water to prove his point. “The TCE is removed at the filters and does not affect the distribution system.”

When contamination was first detected in the town's water supply by the state Office of Drinking water in 2005, levels of trichloroethylene, or TCE, were alarmingly higher than the national safe drinking water standards, which have current limits of no more than 5 parts per billion, or 0.005 milligrams per liter. Some areas of TCE concentrations reached more than 1,000 parts per billion, according to EPA studies.

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For the entire article, see
http://capegazette.villagesoup.com/p/remediation-in-the-works-for-millsboro-superfund-site/1512287

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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