According to the Delmarvanow.com website:

Parties with ties to the property include Tyco Health Care/ Mallincrodt, Schering-Plough Animal Health Corp., Sterwin Laboratories Inc. and Delaware Poultry Laboratories Inc. Representatives of the companies could not be reached late Thursday.

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Pollution in town drinking-water supplies exceeded the federal limit of 5 parts per billion for TCE by dozens of times before routine testing caught the problem. Stiller-Banning said that levels of around 100 parts per million, 20,000 times higher than the drinking-water limit, were detected at the suspected source.

Stiller-Banning said that the pollution appeared to have moved faster than expected from the source to the town's well, about a third of a mile away. Investigators are continuing to map the extent of the contamination plume.

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