[CPEO-MEF] Hutchinson Air Base Industrial Tract (KS)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Polluted water moving toward Yoder well

By Mary Clarkin
The Hutchinson News (KS)
May 18, 2007

YODER - A plume of contaminated groundwater is moving toward the public 
water well that serves Yoder, and those customers could be shifted to 
another public well system.

...

A groundwater monitoring well southwest of District No. 101's well 
showed the water contained 57.7 parts per billion of carbon 
tetrachloride. The maximum level of that chemical allowed in drinking 
water is 5 parts per billion, under federal and state regulations.

The source of the contamination is not known. The Kansas Department of 
Health and Environment is interested in what might have been buried or 
dumped in past years at the Hutchinson Air Base Industrial Tract, 
southwest of Yoder.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.hutchnews.com/news/local/stories/yoder051707.shtml

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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