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		<title>Cecil County Council, Exec Question Army Corps on Pollution of Earleville Wells; No Fed $ for Fixing Homeowners&#8217; Water</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Army Corps of Engineers told the Cecil County Council and County Executive Tari Moore on Monday that the agency plans to install a “liner” or “slurry” wall to contain existing contamination of groundwater from their Pearce’s Creek dump site in Earleville. But the federal agency will not provide money to clean up area residents’ wells and the Corps’ key priority is to resume additional sludge dumping at the site. Cecil County officials served notice at the meeting that cleaning up local residents’ wells was not the county’s financial or operational problem and that the costs and responsibilities for solving the water supply contamination must be borne by those responsible for the pollution. A newly released study by the US Geological Survey found that the Corps dump site is responsible for pollution of several area aquifers and has contaminated many local homes’ water wells, especially in the West View Shores community and adjacent Bay View Estates. [SEE Cecil Times special report here: https://ceciltimes.com/2013/01/new-federal-study-proves-army-dumping-poisoned-earleville-wells-army-wants-to-resume-dumping-in-cecil-county/ At Monday’s meeting, top regional Corps officials were accompanied by a phalanx of Maryland Port Administration (MPA) officials, but notably absent from the meeting&#8211; held at the Corps’ local office in Chesapeake City adjacent to the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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