The Wilmington News Journal (DE) reports:

Solvent-tainted wells in Millsboro could drain as much as $10 million from a Delaware pollution cleanup fund — more than 10 percent of expected spending for efforts statewide through 2012, state documents show.

Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control officials hope to quickly shift the costs to those responsible for the contamination of trichlorethylene, or TCE. But agency planners said the fast-moving plume requires immediate action because it threatens shallow aquifers, public and private wells and nearby waterways.

Officials also are monitoring risks in buildings above the contamination as small amounts of toxic vapors trickle upward through the soil.

The story has us wondering: How often do initial clean-up proposals accurately predict the eventual total cost of clean-up? If you know, please comment or contact us.

You can read the rest of the Millsboro story here.