Chesapeake Currents|online, Summer 2010

The Wilmington News Journal recently published a stellar expose on groundwater pollution in Delaware, and the region served by the Potomac Aquifer, the groundwater supply for significant portions of New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland. Reporter Jeff Montgomery has covered the environment for years, and his devastating series of articles details serious threats to groundwater resources that support drinking water for many residents of Delaware and its neighbors.

The series reports:

• Taxpayers could be stuck with a $100 million toxic mess to clean up, after a large number of polluters have gone bankrupt or walked away from their responsibilities.
• The contamination is spread statewide in Delaware, endangering drinking water supplies.
• There is little if any tracking of responsibility and accountability in current and past tracking of drinking water contamination.

Please read the series online at The Wilmington News Journal.