Comments on: Boston Spends Stimulus Money To Clean Up Polluted Sites http://www.wbur.org/2009/08/25/boston-stimulus Boston's NPR News Source Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:56:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Louis Postel http://www.wbur.org/2009/08/25/boston-stimulus/comment-page-1#comment-1235 Louis Postel Fri, 28 Aug 2009 02:48:48 +0000 http://www.wbur.org/?p=5875#comment-1235 Western suburbs are about to have their own contamination problems. My friend Rob Hartz of Littleton emailed me this alert -- Norfolk Southern and its New England-based partner Pan Am with its lengthy record of environmental violations and criminal convictions are threatening my town’s drinking water. Herbicides may the least of our problems. Rest assured railroads are well-protected; your drinking water is not. When you are in their sites you may be shocked to learn that anything goes. My name is Rob Hartz, head of Coalition for Aquifer Protection and a business consultant specializing in leadership and organizational change. For the past 11 years, my organization and our allies have been fighting an uphill battle to protect the drinking water of two Massachusetts towns. The underground water source or aquifer is threatened by a major polluter, a railroad named Pan Am and it’s senior partner, Norfolk Southern. When I began telling friends and neighbors that our water was at risk, their response was, “what about the EPA and the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974?” If you are in the path of a railroad with a lamentable history of environmental violations and are troubled by the response you get from regulators and political leaders, you are not alone. For more information call (978) 952-6533 or e-mail me at robhartz@v­erizon.net­. Western suburbs are about to have their own contamination problems. My friend Rob Hartz of Littleton emailed me this alert –

Norfolk Southern and its New England-based partner Pan Am with its lengthy record of environmental violations and criminal convictions are threatening my town’s drinking water. Herbicides may the least of our problems.

Rest assured railroads are well-protected; your drinking water is not. When you are in their sites you may be shocked to learn that anything goes.

My name is Rob Hartz, head of Coalition for Aquifer Protection and a business consultant specializing in leadership and organizational change.

For the past 11 years, my organization and our allies have been fighting an uphill battle to protect the drinking water of two Massachusetts towns. The underground water source or aquifer is threatened by a major polluter, a railroad named Pan Am and it’s senior partner, Norfolk Southern. When I began telling friends and neighbors that our water was at risk, their response was, “what about the EPA and the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974?”

If you are in the path of a railroad with a lamentable history of environmental violations and are troubled by the response you get from regulators and political leaders, you are not alone.

For more information call (978) 952-6533 or e-mail me at robhartz@v­erizon.net­.

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