[CPEO-BIF] "EPA to Pay for Water Hookups Around Hidden Lane Landfill Superfund Site, " Loudoun County, Virginia

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA to Pay for Water Hookups Around Hidden Lane Landfill Superfund Site 

Loudoun Now (VA)
June 20, 2019

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will connect 124 homes in the Broad Run Farms neighborhood threatened by contamination from Hidden Lane Landfill Superfund site to public water for free.

They include homes affected by groundwater contamination around the sit as well as the homes in an EPA-designated “buffer zone,” which could potentially be affected by contamination.


The Hidden Lane Landfill was a 25-acre privately owned and operated disposal facility north of Rt. 7 between the Broad Run Farms and CountrySide neighborhoods. The landfill operated from 1971 until 1984, when county regulators and courts shut it down because of groundwater contamination and because the county had never approved the landfill.

In 1989, the Loudoun County Health Department found evidence of the common degreaser trichloroethylene, or TCE, in the groundwater and well water of homes around the landfill. In total, 36 homes were found to have contaminated well water. Those homes then were equipped with water filtration.

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For the entire article, see
https://loudounnow.com/2019/06/20/epa-to-pay-for-water-hookups-around-hidden-lane-landfill-superfund-site/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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