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Author Topic: EPA cancels water delivery to Pa. town  (Read 217 times)
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« on: January 07, 2012, 05:25:32 PM »

ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency abruptly changed its mind Saturday about delivering fresh water to residents of a northeastern Pennsylvania village where residential wells were found to be tainted by a natural gas drilling operation.

Only 24 hours after promising them water, EPA officials informed residents of Dimock that a tanker truck wouldn't be coming after all—an about-face that left them furious, confused and let down—and, once again, scrambling for water for bathing, washing dishes and flushing toilets.

After the EPA delivery fell through Saturday, the environmental group Water Defense, founded by actor Mark Ruffalo, said it would send a tanker from Washingtonville, N.Y., on Sunday to replenish the residents' supply.

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