[CPEO-BIF] Peach Orchard Road Superfund site, Richmond County, Georgia

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Update planned on Peach Orchard Road Superfund site

By Rob Pavey
Augusta Chronicle
November 6, 2012

Federal regulators will hold a community meeting Thursday to update  
residents on the status of a $3.5 million cleanup plan to remove a  
toxic dry-cleaning solvent from a south Richmond County well field  
that once supplemented Augusta’s drinking water.

The chemical, tetrachloroethylene – also known as perchloroethene, or  
PCE – was discovered in 1996 and traced to dry-cleaning businesses in  
the Peach Orchard Road area. The contamination is believed to have  
affected about 350 acres.

Although the solvent was detected only in raw water – and never in  
treated water pumped to municipal customers – the affected wells were  
taken out of service long ago.

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For the entire article, see
http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2012-11-06/update-planned- 
peach-orchard-road-superfund-site

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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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