Conference on Wellfleet Harbor will focus on Cape pharmaceutical study by Silent Spring

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The Provincetown Banner, November 13, 2009
By Marilyn Miller

Excerpt: Laurel Schaider of the Silent Spring Institute in Boston is one of the eight speakers on the agenda for the State of Wellfleet Harbor Conference, which will open at 8:30 a.m. at Wellfleet Elementary School on Saturday, Nov. 14.

After a continental breakfast, and opening remarks by Selectman Jerry Houk, the speakers will start their presentations.

Schaider begins her talk at 11:20 a.m. On "Pharmaceuticals and Hormones in Ponds and Groundwater," it is a topic that “people should be aware of, even if there has been no testing for pharmaceuticals and hormones Wellfleet's ponds," she said.

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