[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: "Toxic pollution at Letterkenny [Army Depot, PA]: A 35-year, $180 million clean-up"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic pollution at Letterkenny: A 35-year, $180 million clean-up

by Jim Hook
Chambersburg Public Opinion (PA)
December 17, 2017

CHAMBERSBURG - Residents living just outside the northern gate of Letterkenny Army Depot were disturbed in 1982 to find out a neighbor had been poisoning their wells.

Residents in the area around Rowe Run Road were advised not to drink their well water. The Army went after the cause of the contamination and connected the homes to a public water system in 1987.

Today, 35 years later, the Army is entering the final stage of containing the hazardous chemicals that pollute the groundwater northeast of the depot.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.publicopiniononline.com/story/news/2017/12/17/toxic-pollution-letterkenny-35-year-180-million-clean-up/949984001/

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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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