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Article: United States: Concerns over Columbia s water quality postpone well placement.
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- November 4, 2009
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Be careful what you drink, because you might be drinking it again.
Chlorides are creeping into Columbia s water supply wells in the Missouri River bottoms at McBaine, indicating that treated wastewater, once funneled far from the wells, is finding its way back into the city's supply.
The chlorides themselves aren't harmful, said Tom O'Connor, an environmental engineer who sits on the city's Environment and Energy Commission as well as the Water and Light Advisory Board. Columbia's drinking water currently meets all Environmental Protection Agency standards. However, the presence of chlorides does show that other potentially ...