Could nearby drinking water supplies have been contaminated by materials injected into a BOMARC injection well?
A report of the Office of the Project Manager for Chemical Demilitarization and Installation Restoration indicated that a 100-foot-deep injection well was located in the southwest portion of the BOMARC site, reportedly about 500 feet northeast and downgradient of the BOMARC water supply wells. The report gives no information on the type and quantity of material disposed of in the injection well (U.S. Army 1977). However, during a sampling effort at the site on April 6 and 7, 1981, no injection well was found. Rather, a rock-filled pit, apparently used for seepage disposal of liquids, was discovered at the suspected location of the injection well (U.S. Army 1981). During that 1981 visit, the Army collected water samples from BOMARC site well No. 2 as well as from six other water supply sources (those identified in Table 2 plus a fire pond located one-third of a mile east at the Naval Air Engineering Station, Lakehurst.) The well water samples were tested for a variety of chemicals, incl
