[CPEO-MEF] Blasting - Source of Action (MA) perchlorate?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents blast panel's inaction
Board hears concerns over chemical in wells

By Sally Heaney
Boston Globe
April 30, 2006

A number of residents of the Brabrook Road neighborhood in Acton vented 
their frustration at a Planning Board meeting last week when the board 
took no action against a local builder. The residents suspect the 
builder used blasting materials with the chemical perchlorate and caused 
perchlorate contamination in two wells.

"I am totally disappointed," Brabrook Road resident Karu Ratnam told the 
board Tuesday. "It seems like [you] just want to pass it on to someone 
else."

The residents are seeking reimbursement for well-testing expenses from 
the developer of Ellsworth Village, a housing complex for seniors being 
built at the end of Brabrook Road. Blasting was done last fall to put a 
water main beneath Brabrook Road to connect Ellsworth Village to the 
public water supply.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/04/30/residents_blast_panels_inaction/

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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
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