Published in the Asbury Park Press
By JEAN MIKLE
TOMS RIVER BUREAU
TOMS RIVER -- An update on progress to install carbon filtration systems on two United Water Toms River wells will be given at tonight's meeting of the Citizens Action Committee on Childhood Cancer Cluster.
The 7 p.m. meeting will be held in the second floor meeting room at the Dover Township municipal building, 33 Washington St.
United Water Toms River last month began installing carbon filtration systems on wells 22 and 29 in the company's parkway well field. Gov. Whitman ordered the company to install the filters last fall, after trace amounts of trichloroethylene, a suspected carcinogen, were found in well 29, along with tiny amounts of styrene acrylonitrile trimer, a chemical compound related to plastics production.
The chemicals were likely drawn into the well after it was pumped at a higher than normal rate during peak summer water demands. A plume of ground water contamination from the Reich Farm Superfund site has seeped into the well field, but it is normally controlled and treated through an air stripping system and carbon filtration on wells 26 and 28.
An update on efforts to drill an interceptor well to help capture and treat the Reich Farm plume will also be discussed tonight, according to Linda L. Gillick, who chairs the citizens committee.
Gillick said an update on the ongoing toxicology study of styrene acrylonitrile trimer will also be given tonight.
Source: Asbury Park Press
Published: May 10, 1999
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