[CPEO-BIF] Georgetown North Groundwater Site , Deleware

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA presents plans for Georgetown Superfund site
Agency: Town drinking water meets state and federal standards

By Ryan Mavity
Cape Gazette (DE)
May 15, 2022

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency presented plans April 20 to designate a .27-mile area in north Georgetown as a Superfund site.

The EPA is proposing to call the site the Georgetown North Groundwater Site and put the area under the Superfund National Priorities List, which would provide funding and jump-start the cleanup process of contamination of perchloroethylene and trichloroethylene in the groundwater, exposure to which has been linked to cancers and birth defects. 

The EPA says Georgetown’s drinking water is currently treated to remove contamination from PCE and TCE, and the town’s water meets state and federal drinking water standards.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.capegazette.com/article/epa-presents-plans-georgetown-superfund-site/238740

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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