[CPEO-MEF] New EDB extraction well at Otis (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Air Force well to attack newfound toxic plume in Falmouth

By Amanda Lehmert
Cape Cod Times (MA)
August 8, 2007

FALMOUTH - The Air Force is adding a new treatment well to clean up a 
previously undetected portion of a toxic chemical plume flowing under 
Hatchville.

The Air Force has been treating the plume of ethylene dibromide (EDB) 
since 1997, which was soon after the fuel additive was found upwelling 
in the Coonamessett River. The Air Force installed an extraction well 
and shallow well points to clean the EDB before it gets into the river 
and the adjacent cranberry bogs, which use the river water for irrigation.

"Our goal is to keep EDB out of the river," said Jon Davis, Air Force 
Installation Restoration Program manager.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070808/NEWS/708080315/-1/NEWSLETTER02

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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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