[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Cape Cod (MA) private wells

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air Force cleanup targets private water wells

By George Brennan
Cape Cod Times
February 26, 2010

FALMOUTH - The Air Force is reaching out to North Falmouth and Cataumet 
neighborhoods to determine whether any private wells are being used for 
drinking water or irrigation that have yet to be identified, a spokesman 
said yesterday.

Over the past two years, the Air Force Center for Engineering and the 
Environment, which is overseeing part of the massive cleanup of 
groundwater at the Massachusetts Military Reservation, has sent mailings 
and made phone calls to nearly 500 property owners.

About 20 percent of the property owners have yet to respond, which is 
the focus of the upcoming outreach effort, said Doug Karson, community 
involvement leader for the Air Force.

The underground contamination plumes, which are in areas identified by 
the Air Force as Landfill One and Chemical Spill 23, are contaminated 
with solvents up to seven times higher than allowed under drinking water 
standards.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100226/NEWS/2260331

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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