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Posted February 8, 2006
Morrison water tests show E. coli
Six wells contaminated, residents tell Town Board
By Ed Byrne
Wrightstown Post-Gazette
MORRISON
— Water in some wells is contaminated with E. coli and coliform
bacteria, according to some residents in the unincorporated community
of Wayside in southern Brown County.
Six wells have been found contaminated and test results are pending on eight more, the residents said.
"So far, everybody who has had their wells tested has it," said Jeff Gibbons of 3668 Wayside Road.
He
was apparently the first person to realize something was wrong on Jan.
24. "I smelled manure in my water," Gibbons said. "I can't point a
finger at a source."
He got his water tested and the results confirmed his suspicions.
His
contaminated well was about 80 feet deep. Gibbons had a new well
drilled to a depth of about 300 feet, and there is no contamination in
the water from the new well.
Gibbons appeared at Tuesday night's Town Board meeting and said the community needs to be warned.
Sheralee Reetz of 8294 Brown County W said her well also tested positive for both bacteria.
She
said her well water was also smelling strange, but warned that the
water can be contaminated without any aroma of fecal matter. "Two doors
down from me, they had no odor, but it tested positive for E. coli and
coliform," she said. "But mine stunk."
Town
Chairman Todd Christensen said he had some phone calls informing him
that there may be a problem with well contamination in the Wayside
area.
He
alerted the Brown County Conservation Department and the Wisconsin
Department of Natural Resources and said both agencies are now looking
into the situation.
— Ed Byrne is editor of the Wrightstown Post-Gazette.
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