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Exxon ruling draws protests
Lawyers for a group of northern Baltimore County residents are appealing a state decision that allows ExxonMobil to stop monitoring some residential wells contaminated after thousands of gallons of gasoline seeped into the groundwater in 2006.
In January, the oil giant sought the Maryland Department of the Environment's approval to discontinue testing of water samples from some of the 248 private wells being monitored in and around Jacksonville, and to allow it to cease its deliveries of free bottled water to 126 households that are among hundreds affected by the gasoline leak.
In a Feb. 1 letter to ExxonMobil, the MDE said the oil company was doing an effective job of cleaning up the area and agreed to its requests to stop the sampling of 130 of the homeowners' wells and to stop the bottled water deliveries.