[CPEO-MEF] Maryland groundwater sites

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[This article appears to describe two distinct sites in the same area. - LS]

Fuel leak is worrisome, familiar story for residents


By Nick Shields and Laura Barnhardt
Baltimore Sun
February 26, 2006

Joyce Rush still remembers seeing the swirls of blue and pink in a glass 
of water drawn from her family's well.

She recalls how bottled water became a staple in her family's 
Jacksonville home, how her son would hesitate before accepting a drink 
of water when visiting neighbors.

...

Residents along Sunnybrook Road, southwest of Four Corners, were having 
a different water problem in the 1980s and 1990s. Tests in 1981 showed 
that their well water was contaminated by a degreasing agent that had 
been used at a nearby Army Nike missile site.

From 1981 until 1994, when they were connected to a new community well, 
Daniel and Anne Shanahan, and several other families, used bottled water 
for drinking and cooking. The bottles arrived each month, courtesy of 
the Army.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.leak26feb26,0,790938.story?coll=bal-local-headlines
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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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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