Jet fuel has been detected in another private well in Upper Makefield's Mount Eyre area, where a Sunoco pipeline leak was discovered last year after going undetected for more than 16 months. A monitoring well used by the pipeline companies also tested positive for jet fuel on April 1. At least a dozen residential wells in the area have now shown contamination from jet fuel or related chemicals like benzene, and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection says any such contamination must be addressed since there is no acceptable limit for jet fuel in groundwater. Township Manager Gregg Schuster said the new findings were not unexpected given what is known about the pipeline release and indicated that Energy Transfer still has significant remediation work ahead. The leak was originally discovered not through the companies' detection systems, but by consulting old records and excavating a section of pipe that had been repaired in the 1990s.
Source: Bucks County Herald; 4/24/2026