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KDHE says source found, increases monitoring around Yoder water well
Summary
County staff told commissioners that KDHE identified a likely carbon-tetrachloride source tied to a 2013 excavation and will increase groundwater monitoring near Rural Water District 101 (Yoder), install continuous transducers at selected wells and report new data to quantify any future risk to the public-supply well.
County staff updated the Reno County Commission on long-term groundwater monitoring around the Yoder public-supply well, saying the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) identified a likely source of contamination and will increase sampling and instrumentation to better quantify any future risk.
"In 2013 they believe they found a source of the contamination," said the county staff member presenting the KDHE letter, describing an excavation where officials found a "burial pit that was really, really hot in the carbon tetrachloride," the…
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