2008 CPEO Military List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:37:47 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-military
Subject: [CPEO-MEF] VOCs - Private wells near Otis Air Base (MA)
 
Air Force rechecks polluted wells

By George Brennan
Cape Cod times
March 5, 2008

FALMOUTH - Letters are being sent to 600 property owners to determine 
whether private wells from a polluted water supply are being used to 
water gardens or fill swimming pools.

In the coming weeks, all property owners in the Ashumet Valley will 
receive a form requesting information about wells on their land, Douglas 
Karson, spokesman for the Air Force Center for Engineering and the 
Environment (AFCEE), said yesterday.

"This entire area that's part of the survey is supplied by the public 
water supply system," he said. "This is an extra measure of precaution 
to make sure no one is exposed to groundwater contamination in that area."

A plume contaminated by solvents once used at the Massachusetts Military 
Reservation was detected flowing into East Falmouth in the 1980s. Since 
then, the Air Force has been working to clean it up and has paid to 
replace all private wells with municipal water service, Karson said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080305/NEWS/803050322/-1/NEWSLETTER100

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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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