Published in the Asbury Park Press
By JEAN MIKLE
TOMS RIVER BUREAU
TOMS RIVER -- Committees in the state Senate and Assembly have approved legislation that would pay for the installation of carbon filtration systems on two United Water Toms River wells.
The Assembly bill, A-2975, sponsored by Assemblymen James W. Holzapfel and David W. Wolfe, both R-Ocean, cleared the Assembly Environment Committee Thursday by a 6 to 0 vote.
The Senate bill, S-1761, was also approved unanimously by the Senate Environment Committee. The senate version of the legislation was sponsored by Sen. Andrew R. Ciesla, R-Ocean, and Sen. President Donald DiFrancesco, R-Union.
The bills were introduced after Gov. Whitman agreed that the state would pay the cost of installing the filtration on the two wells, which are in United's parkway well field, off Dugan Lane.
The governor ordered that the filtration systems be installed on the two wells last fall, after trace amounts of trichloroethylene, a suspected carcinogen, were found in one of the wells during the summer. Small amounts of styrene acrylonitrile trimer, a chemical compound related to plastics production, were also found in the well.
Source: Asbury Park Press
Published: May 08, 1999
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