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Article: County leans to lake water to resolve radium problem
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- The News Sun - Waukegan (IL)
- Article date:
- July 9, 2003
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Switching well water users to lake water is emerging as the favored action to address elevated levels of radium in the water of about 520 Libertyville-area homes.
Both the affected residents and some members of the Lake County Board have expressed a preference for switching the water source for houses in the Countryside Manor, Terre Faire and North Libertyville Estates subdivisions to lake water, according to Lake County Superintendent of Public Works Martin "Al" Galantha.
Those houses are served by the county's Countryside Manor Water System, which delivers a blend of water from shallow and deep wells. Testing earlier this year revealed that the water slightly exceeds the state standard ...