Town of Jackson - Three more private wells are contaminated with gasoline from a July 17 pipeline break north of Western Ave., bringing the total to seven, a state environmental official said Sunday.
Three additional wells were added to the list this weekend after tests of water samples found they contained levels of benzene exceeding the federal safe drinking water standard of 5 parts per billion, said Scott Ferguson, spills coordinator for the state Department of Natural Resources in Milwaukee.
Contractors for West Shore Pipe Line Co. of Arlington Heights, Ill., the pipeline owner, started installing water treatment systems at each of the seven polluted wells Saturday and the work continued Sunday, Ferguson said. In addition, West Shore is providing the seven families with bottled water.
An estimated 54,600 gallons of gasoline spilled out of a break in the pipeline around one-third mile north of Western Ave. on July 17. The pipeline crosses Western Ave. about midway between Maple Road and county Highway G.
Though the break was repaired within a few days, contractors have spent the last week digging up contaminated soil and trucking it off to a landfill for disposal.
The break occurred on the John and Susan Fenton property. Excavation of tainted soil on the Fenton farm and the adjacent Patrick and Sally McComis property was completed Saturday. The Fenton and McComis wells are among those contaminated with gasoline.
A wide pit straddling the two property lines was being filled Sunday with clean soil, Ferguson said.
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