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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic Site Proposes Healthier Cleanup 
System Could Cut Toxic Emissions

Mountain View Voice
July 4, 2003

By Julie O'Shea 

A new cleanup system environmentalists and federal officials are calling
more "eco-friendly" than others currently operating in Mountain View may
soon be installed at one of the city's largest Superfund sites. 

The systems being explored by Raytheon -- which sits on the
Middlefield-Ellis-Whisman (MEW) site -- would prevent toxins from
seeping into Mountain View air. They could also dramatically lessen the
amount of pollutants released into the air at a plant in Red Bluff, CA,
where carbon vessels carrying what's left of the Mountain View site's
pollution will be superheated and, at least in theory, destroyed. 

Raytheon is looking into a process that would use a combination of
hydrogen peroxide and ultraviolet light or ozone to transforms the
cancer-causing solvent trichloroethene (TCE) -- which Raytheon and other
companies leaked into ground water -- into less harmful byproducts.
Those byproducts would end up sticking to the granular carbon used to
filter toxins from water and air. 

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for the entire story, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/thisweek/2003_07_04.raythn.html

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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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