[CPEO-BIF] Hopewell Junction, New York, to get alternate water

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hopewell families win battle for money in toxic water fight

by John Ferro
Poughkeepsie Journal  (NY)
September 22, 2016


HOPEWELL JUNCTION - It's been 13 years since residents and businesses along a portion of Route 82 in the Town of East Fishkill learned their well water had been contaminated with toxic chemicals.

It's been 11 years since the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency named the area a Superfund site.

There have been public meetings and dashed plans, hopes and disappointments.

But now, finally, the first shovels of dirt are to be removed to make room for a new water system.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/tech/science/environment/2016/09/22/hopewell-precision-epa-superfund/90837156/

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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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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