Costly Cape Cod cleanup has advanced groundwater hydrology research
The tale of the Cape Cod cleanup has all the elements of an epic novel: It's long. It offers intrigue, heroes and plot twists. And, of course, it changes the world.
Denis LeBlanc, who has spent much of his career studying the hydrology of western Cape Cod, described in a talk on April 9 how the investigation into a single "plume" or tongue of contaminated water underground became a 25-year gold mine of hydrology research and fueled an ongoing effort to rid the Cape's groundwater of pollutants.
