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HARRISBURG - A map
showing areas of southeastern
Pennsylvania where groundwater
may contain elevated levels of
radium has been released,
Department of Environmental
Resources officials said recently.
The potentially-affected area is
in the Chickies Geologic For
mation, a 112-square mile quart
zite formation in portions of Bucks,
Chester, Lancaster, Montgomery,
York, Adams and Berks counties.
Elevated radium levels were
found in three public water sup
plies which resulted in a co
sponsored study by the United
States Geological Service and
DER. That study began in October
1986. The USGS Water Resources
Division, Malvern, found radium
exceeded the 5-picocurie-per-liter
maximum contaminant level
established for public water
supplies in 19 of 56 private drinking
water supply wells.
Margaret Reilly, DER’s chief of
environmental radiation, ex
plained that drinking two liters of
water daily containing 5 picocuries
per liter poses a risk of 0.7 to 3
cancer possibilities per million
persons per year which may result
in bone cancer. The body absorbs
radium in much the same way as
calcium and therefore, could lead
to radium being deposited in bone.
Private water supplies are not
regulated by DER. However, the
Bureau of Community En
vironmental Control will explain
the results of private testing that
well owners may choose to have
done.
L. Dewayne Cecil, USGS
hydrogeologist said water from 130
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