December 8, 2007 - County, state and federal health and environmental officials are trying to determine the source of petroleum and solvent contamination in drinking wells in the vicinity of Halifax Road and Virgilina Road, the Person County Health Department disclosed Friday.
Person County Health Director Janet Clayton said in a press release via e-mail to The Courier-Times late Friday afternoon that for the past month the department has been “investigating private drinking water wells which are contaminated with chlorinated solvents and gasoline around the Halifax Road and Virgilina Road intersection.”
While the source of contamination has yet to be determined, Carpenter said underground gasoline storage tanks at the sites of former service stations in the area are suspect. And he indicated that a former machine shop in the area could be the possible source of the chlorinated solvents detected in the ground water, but there has been no official determination to that effect to date.
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Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
2 comments:
Dude, you're like Erin Brokovitch now.
I gotta go contaminate my toilet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7l6jg4Hlog
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