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Article: 41 WATER SUPPLIES LOST SINCE '60 BY CONTAMINATION, REPORT SAYS
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 14, 1987
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Contamination has forced 41 Massachusetts communities to
shut down water supplies since 1960, and officials have given up
reopening more than half of them because of the severity of the
pollution and cleanup costs, a new state report said yesterday.
A 166-page report by the Special Legislative Commission on
Water Supply also said tougher standards under last year's amended
version of the Safe Drinking Water Act may result in the shutdown
of 100 more municipal wells.
And, the commission warned, "many more municipalities" will
lose their water supplies to chemical contamination if state and
local officials do not expand preventive action.
"The 41 contamination incidents detailed in ...