Jet fuel has been detected in the well of another Upper Makefield home, local and state officials have confirmed.
A private well in the Mount Eyre area, where a jet fuel leak was discovered in a pipeline last year, tested positive for separate-phase liquid last month, a Department of Environmental Protection spokesperson said this week.
A second, monitoring well used by the pipeline companies as they clean up the leak — which may have been spilling petroleum into ground water for more than 16 months prior to its discovery — also tested positive for jet fuel April 1.
Since there’s no acceptable limit for jet fuel in groundwater, any such contamination must be addressed, said Robyn Briggs, the DEP spokesperson.
At least a dozen wells that Mount Eyre residents…
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