Contamination `unusual' in Mass.(News) From: The Boston Herald | Date: April 26, 2007| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2007 Boston Herald. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: HEATHER SCHULTZ

Lead from old pipes is a greater threat to most Bay Staters than the possibility that skin-burning water will ever flow from the tap as it did in Spencer yesterday.

"It's unusual for something (like that) to go wrong because the plants are overdesigned," said Wayne Chudyk, a civil and environmental engineering professor at Tufts.

Chudyk described yesterday's accidental release of concentrated sodium hydroxide into the Spencer water supply as a fluke. The process that removes pathogens and other harmful substances from water is usually safe, he ...

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