[CPEO-MEF] WATER: Air National Guard, New Castle Airport, Delaware

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Water quality at Delaware Guard site called into question

Artesian thinks base pollutants have seeped into Airport Park wellfield

By JEFF MONTGOMERY
Wilmington News Journal (DE)
November 14, 2010

Delaware environmental officials have widened an investigation into the 
spread of chemical pollutants under New Castle Airport, after the 
state's largest private water supplier expressed fears that the 
pollution has contaminated two public supply wells near Hares Corner.

Joseph A. DiNunzio, senior vice president with Artesian Resources, said 
the Defense Department has not adequately addressed groundwater con- 
tamination at the Delaware Air National Guard site near New Castle.

Artesian believes fuel and solvent compounds from spills as long ago as 
the 1940s have seeped underground from the base to Artesian's Airport 
Industrial Park wellfield southwest of U.S. 13 and Frenchtown Road.

"Our customers have borne these costs," DiNunzio said. "If there are 
responsible parties and the documentation is clear -- and that work 
needs to be completed, in this case -- the responsible parties owe our 
customers all that they have paid all these years."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20101114/NEWS02/11140373/Guard-site-water-quality-questioned

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