By Jennifer Somers
St. Charles, Missouri -The City of St. Charles (click here) shut down another water well in the Elm Point Wellfield to maintain safe drinking water for its residents after detecting contamination.
The closure of City Well No. 7, announced Thursday morning, means that the city has shut down six of its seven wells due to traces of 1,2-dichloroethene and vinyl chloride. To combat a drinking water shortage, the city has been purchasing millions of gallons of water daily from the City of St. Louis instead of producing its own at a lower cost....
