[CPEO-BIF] "Missouri knew of contamination in Springfield’s groundwater decades before anyone told residents"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Missouri knew of contamination in Springfield’s groundwater decades before anyone told residents


by Eric Schmid and Steve Vockrodt
Salem News (MO)
December 20, 2022

People living near a company that did work for the Navy had no idea that a toxic solvent, disposed of improperly, had made its way into their drinking water – until a public apology from the state.

Early in 2019, Ed Galbraith faced a crowd of some 200 unhappy Springfield, Missouri residents. He wanted to make amends.

Galbraith, then director of Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ environmental quality division, acknowledged that the state agency in charge of protecting the environment should have announced sooner that contaminated water had spread from an old industrial site near the Springfield-Branson National Airport. Residents had recently found out that a harmful chemical known to cause cancer had been detected in the groundwater.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.thesalemnewsonline.com/news/article_ca479ca4-80a6-11ed-b595-774ce0fecba1.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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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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