[CPEO-MEF] Shaw Air Force Base (SC) TCE

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Groundwater Contamination Possible Near Shaw

Ashley Monts
WLTX-TV 19 (Columbia, SC)
January 30, 2006


(Sumter) - For the last seven years, Danny Burkett has been working on 
his dream home.

"I can be in my own little world here and be at work in just a few 
minutes," he says.

His rustic retreat - built in a wooded area near Shaw Air Force Base - 
comes complete with his own well.

"I just always thought drinking water was safer if it's never been 
treated," Danny says.

Now, he's finding out that's not necessarily the case.

A few days ago, he got a letter from Shaw letting him know there may be 
a chemical called trichloroethylene - or TCE - in his groundwater.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.wltx.com/news/news19.aspx?storyid=34661
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org


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