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To: Katherine Derbyshire who wrote (46940)	5/17/2001 5:50:31 PM
From: w0z	Respond to of 70976

How did the PCBs and dioxin get into the groundwater in the first place? I'm no expert but PCB's were commonly used as cooling fluid on electrical transformers. Dioxin I believe was a bleaching agent for paper among other things. Most of these materials were released years ago before their effects were well understoon (i.e. pre-EPA). TCE was commonly used as a cleansing agent for both PC boards and integrated circuits. If you put poison in my drinking water, I don't think it's unreasonable to expect you to clean it up. Agreed. But what do you do if the companies that did it (i.e. many unscrupulous disposal firms) vanished? That's what the Superfund was created for but you know who paid for that? Us taxpayers. There is no magical Deep Pocket to stick with many of these costs!