Arsenic in Connecticut wells may be a legacy of past pesticide use on orchards
oisons can linger in the ecosystem decades after they were last applied
21-Dec-2021 -
The rolling hills of Connecticut were once home to tens of thousands of fruit orchards – 47,000 by the 1930s. Anyone who has ever grown fruit trees, like apples, knows that insects love fruit as much as humans, and until the 1950s orchards were heavily fortified with lead arsenate-based ...
arsenic
drinking water
environmental protection
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