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Officials give out filters for water in Sumter
Sumter area residents received free water filters after contamination in the Wedge Field Stateburg Water District supply. About 1,200 homes got one filter, with drinking water needing to come from a single faucet. Ethylene dibromide levels were about ten times the limit, though they have fallen to three times the limit as wells were switched. The district plans to buy water from Sumter city by February 2008 at an estimated cost of $500,000. officials cannot say when quality will improve.
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Sumter
Sumter Area
Wedgefield-Stateburg
Doug Kinard
State Department of Health and Environmental Control
Jack Pettit
Sumter County
Department of Health and Environmental Control
Cty
Sam Hopkins
Water District Board
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency