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Article: NO PCBS FOUND IN RADFORD'S WATER SUPPLY [Corrected 04/10/04]
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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The head of Radford's Water Department said Wednesday that PCBs
have never been detected in the city's water supply, which is drawn
from the New River not far downstream from where high levels of the
dangerous chemicals were found.
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality announced Tuesday
that soil from a long-closed limestone quarry contains more than 500
times the allowed levels of PCBs, or polychlorinated biphenyls. The
quarry is on the bank of the New River, but DEQ officials said it is
too early to say whether the PCBs are reaching the river.
Radford Water Department chief Lawrence Rice said the city's water
is tested quarterly and no PCBs have ever turned up in it.
"PCBs are ...