Wburg water could be contaminated

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. - The Navy is trying to determine whether traces of chemicals from an abandoned Camp Peary disposal site have leaked into the Waller Mill Reservoir, Williamsburg's main source of drinking water.

Navy officials say that the source of the contamination is a World War II-era swimming pool originally used to train Navy Seabees. It then was used sometime in the 1970s as a general dumping site for construction materials, including polychlorinaed biphenyls, or PCBs.

PCBs have been found on site and on a drainage pathway under Interstate 64 that directs stormwater runoff from Camp Peary into the reservoir. Camp Peary and the Naval Facilities Engineering Command are removing the chemicals and will help with monitoring the reservoir.