Wednesday, December 16, 2015

State monitoring ground water along Bluff Road in Apalachicola

County Commissioners have agreed to allow two monitoring wells to be placed on Bluff Road near Waddell Road to look for possible groundwater contamination.
A company called Aerostar SES will place the temporary wells in the Bluff Road right-of-way opposite Waddell Road. 
Two other wells will be placed on Apalachicola Northern Railroad property.
The company has been contracted by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection to install the wells to monitor any possible contamination from a former underground storage tank on the Apalachicola Northern Railroad site. 
Commissioner Smokey Parrish said a lot of people in that area are on wells so it’s imperative that the county help with the monitoring to make sure no one’s well is being contaminated.

Alan Pierce said this is a relatively common occurrence that is done any time an older storage tank is removed from the ground. 


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