[CPEO-BIF] Midway Tests Show No Threat from Toxics

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Midway Tests Show No Threat From Toxics
Daly City tenants dispute findings
Angelica Pence
San Francisco Chronicle
Sat. February 3, 2001

Residents of a Daly City housing project -- many of them certain they 
have been made sick by chemicals beneath their homes -- do not need to 
be relocated, according to a report released yesterday by state and 
federal officials. 

Five carcinogens found at the Midway Village apartment complex pose no 
threat to public health, according to a report by the state's Department 
of Toxic Substances Control, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
and an independent contractor. Tenants will therefore stay put, whether 
they like it or not. 

After seven months of testing, the agencies concluded that the chemicals 
detected in the complex, which is adjacent to a Superfund site, pose no 
health threats to residents. 

"If you look at all of the contaminants from all of the samples, none of 
them exceed EPA screening goals," said Ron Baker, spokesman for the 
Department of Toxic Substances Control. "In layman's terms: (the soil) 
isn't a problem." 

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