Dartmouth to compensate neighbors impacted by lab dump
Source: Associated Press
Dartmouth to compensate neighbors impacted by lab dump
Michael Casey, Associated Press
Updated 7:39 pm, Monday, February 6, 2017
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Dartmouth College announced plans Monday to offer compensation to homeowners impacted by groundwater contamination coming from a site where the Ivy League school once dumped animals used in science experiments.
The school's Rennie Farm was used from the 1960s until 1978 to dump carcasses from "tracer experiments," in which scientists used radioactive compounds to see how things moved through life systems. A nearby site also contained remains of human cadavers and stillborn fetuses used in medical classes.
One of the chemicals used in the experiments leaked into the groundwater around the site — contaminating at least one private well and raising fears that property values had been impacted. It was initially found at 50 times the state standard of 3 parts per billion on the site and more recently as high as 600 parts per billion in the ground. The chemical has been linked to eye, nose and throat irritation and, in long-term exposure, to liver and kidney damage, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.
Should a homeowner want to sell, the college said Monday that it would make up the difference between a sale and the fair market value of the home or buy the property outright. The college then would attempt to sell any of the properties it was forced purchase.
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toxic waste clean up site, but then we seem to be ridding ourselves of the EPA...