P:erchlorate in private well

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

My House Is Worth Nothing'
Fouled well leaves Westford family high and dry

By PETER WARD
Lowell Sun (MA)
September 2, 2004

WESTFORD - Whenever he heard blasting from a construction project near 
his home, Ken Winchester worried that his framed pictures might shake 
off the walls.

But that was nothing compared to his new concern.

The town's health director phoned him last week, warning him to stop 
drinking the water from his well.

"She told me, 'All I can tell you right now is your well is heavily 
infested,'" said Winchester.

The dream house he built at 1 Emily Way 15 years ago on a wooded hilltop 
in the Graniteville neighborhood, he was told, was tainted with a 
chemical he had never heard of.

Perchlorate, found in explosives, is potentially harmful because it 
interferes with the thyroid gland.

Officials found 425 parts per billion in his 250-foot well. Healthy 
adults are advised not to drink water with more than 18 ppb. The state 
suggests that pregnant women, children under 12 and people with thyroid 
problems avoid drinking water at more than 1 ppb.

The Winchesters have a 12-year-old daughter and twin boys, 8.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.lowellsun.com/Stories/0,1413,105~4746~2376084,00.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
http://www.cpeo.org


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