Re: [CPEO-BIF] Who should test redeveloped Superfund site?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Firms Must Test for Toxin in Mtn. View, Agency Says
By Joshua L. Kwan
San Jose Mercury News
Tuesday, October 1, 2002

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will require 10 Silicon Valley
high-tech companies that once operated manufacturing plants in Mountain
View to conduct -- for the first time -- air-quality testing for a toxic
substance inside several offices since built on the land.

The same companies are suspected of having leaked into the ground a
substance called trichloroethylene, known as TCE, a widely used solvent
that cleans machine parts.

Now, the EPA believes TCE might be 60 to 70 times more dangerous to
humans than previously thought, and it is concerned that contamination
in groundwater is seeping into the air inside office buildings
constructed in areas vacated by those companies.

...

for the entire story, see
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/peninsula/4187334.htm
You might need to cut and paste this URL.

LS

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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