[CPEO-BIF] Woburn's water today

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Safe Drinking Water Act is now 30 years old

By JIM HAGGERTY
Daily Times Chronicle (MA)
December 28, 2004

WOBURN - As the year 2004 winds down, a 30-year-old and 40-year-old
issue on so-called "Woburn water" is still in the forefront.

Last week marked the 30th anniversary of the signing of the federal Safe
Drinking Water Act, one of the most important public health laws ever
enacted in the United States. The act aims to ensure that 170,000 public
water supplies, serving 275 million people, meet national standards that
protect consumers from harmful contaminants in drinking water. 

Locally, the act in Massachusetts regulates almost 11,000 public water
systems serving nearly 12 million consumers in New England.

On another front, the year 2004 marks the 40th opening of the ominous G
& H Wells in East Woburn which provided water to the East Woburn and
Central Square areas in a crescent-shaped angle emanating from the wells
off Salem St. in East Woburn. The infamous wells were closed in 1979 and
gave rise to the book and film "A Civil Action."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.woburnonline.com/frontpage/december04/122804-2.html

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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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