[CPEO-MEF] East Acton (MA) perchlorate

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chemical reach is uncertain

By Patricia Bertuccio
Acton Beacon (MA)
June 29, 2006

ACTON - For the past nine months, the possible contamination of some 
East Acton private water supplies has leached into controversy and 
uncertainty

Two homeowners found the toxin perchlorate in wells following 
construction blasting at a nearby senior housing development. In recent 
weeks angry neighbors concerned about the heath of their families have 
urged town officials to intervene.

Perchlorate traces in two private wells on Brabrook Road were found last 
March after James Fenton, a local developer, started his work nearby. 
The previous October he used explosives on his expansion project at the 
Ellsworth Village, located on Great Road and extending to the end of 
Brabrook. But he denies ever using perchlorate chemicals.

The causality points to Fenton's explosives as the pollutant, but 
further discussions among officials at the state and local level aren't 
so sure that's the case.

Perchlorate took the spotlight in 2002, after it was found in an aquifer 
in Bourne. The contaminant was first reported in the area after water 
was tested at a swimming pool at the Harvard Ridge Condominiums in 
Boxborough in 2005. The substance is unregulated and its sources are varied.

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For the entire article, see
http://www2.townonline.com/acton/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=527482

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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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