Source of Millsboro TCE identified (DE)
The Sussex Post (DE) reports:
After nearly four months of investigating, state officials have announced a breakthrough in their search for the source of last year’s trichloroethylene outbreak in Millsboro. Paul Wills, a program manager with the site investigation and restoration branch of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, confirmed to the Sussex Post late last week that the site of a former animal laboratory along U.S. 113 is the most likely cause of last year’s contamination. “At this point, we’re very certain,” Mr. Wills said. “Based upon the levels of TCE that we’re finding, this is the most likely source.”Read more here
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“The lab was there in the 1960s, and that was prior even to the (Environmental Protection Agency),” Mr. Wills said. “TCE is a wonderful solvent; that’s why it was used so much. But, way back when, when people wanted to get rid of the stuff, they literally just threw it out the back door."
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