[CPEO-MEF] Millbury (MA) perchlorate cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Shoppes to pay water cleanup
Perchlorate contamination

By Donna Boynton
WORCESTER TELEGRAM & GAZETTE (MA)
August 23, 2006


MILLBURY - The developers of the Shoppes at Blackstone Valley have 
agreed to cover nearly all the expenses Aquarion Water Co. incurred from 
perchlorate contamination two years ago.

Speaking to the Board of Selectmen last night, Aquarion's Michelle 
Desorcy said the mall developers, Route 146 Millbury LLC, have said they 
will reimburse Aquarion for 95 percent of the cost associated with the 
perchlorate contamination and associated cleanup.

...

Aquarion tested its wells in 2004 to make sure that it complied with the 
state's guidelines for perchlorate, and those tests revealed that two 
wells near the Blackstone River, known as Jacques wells Nos. 1 and 2, 
had unacceptably high levels of perchlorate, a chemical used in making 
rocket fuel and explosives.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060823/NEWS/608230701/1116

--
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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