[CPEO-BIF] Delaware Groundwater (Part 2)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Polluted water found statewide

Toxic plume lurks under Dover's historic Green

By JEFF MONTGOMERY
Wilmington News Journal (DE)
July 26, 2010

Three months ago, environmental regulators in Delaware received a blunt 
warning from the Environmental Protection Agency after workers in Dover 
drilled a deep test well where federal investigators were tracking 
shallow groundwater pollution.

Check first before drilling, the EPA said, or pay the price for 
endangering the public's water.

The letter warned that the drilling might allow the "extensive" 
contamination to leak into "deeper water-bearing zones used by the City 
of Dover for drinking water."

At issue are toxic chemicals spreading underneath one of the most iconic 
spots in Delaware - The Green, a town square where Caesar Rodney and 
other signers of the Declaration of Independence once gathered and 
political life in Delaware still thrives.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20100726/NEWS/7260329/Polluted-water-found-statewide

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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
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