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From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 16:12:53 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "Uxbridge [Massachusetts] allows water tie-in for house with contaminated well"
 
Uxbridge allows water tie-in for house with contaminated well


By Susan Spencer 
Worcester Telegram & Gazette (MA)
March 12, 2018 

UXBRIDGE – Volatile organic compounds dumped some 20 years ago off Kempton Road, just over the town line in Millville, were recently detected above drinking level standards in a private well at 452 East St. in Uxbridge, Department of Public Works Director Benn S. Sherman told selectmen Monday.

The state Department of Environmental Protection, which has been periodically monitoring the plume, would normally put in a treatment unit to protect drinking water. But since the affected property has physical access to municipal water, although the owner had not connected to the system, regulators asked that the town authorize the connection.

Acting as water and sewer commissioners, selectmen voted to authorize the connection, despite the moratorium imposed roughly a year ago on the number of connections that could tie into the aging and overloaded pumping station in the area. Commissioners have allowed 186 connections on a pumping station built for 150 houses.


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For the entire article, see
http://qctimes.com/news/local/epa-will-test-bettendorf-neighborhood-for-contamination/article_776ec653-5c1a-5f75-8906-89392f56d176.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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