Poughkeepsie TCE

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA Checks Air in Homes

By Dan Shapley
Poughkeepsie Journal (NY)
Tuesday, April 13, 2004

Federal environmental officials are investigating whether vapors from
polluted groundwater in two East Fishkill neighborhoods are entering
homes and posing a health risk.

The costly tests are at the vanguard of a nationwide effort to
understand and deal with contaminated air where groundwater has been
polluted. There are likely hundreds, maybe thousands of such sites --
including several in the mid-Hudson Valley, where some residents are
beginning to question whether they also need their air tested.

''I would like them to test more areas now that they're going around --
to find out if this business that's getting into the air is a problem,''
Joseph Cavaliere Sr. said

The wells that serve his Hopewell Junction neighborhood -- about 185
people, according to the EPA -- are contaminated with trichloroethylene,
or TCE, but at low levels considered safe under state and federal health
standards.

But what about the air? Cavaliere wonders. His home is within a few
hundred feet of the well, so it's reasonable to expect the same
groundwater flows under his home.

...

for the entire story, see
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/today/localnews/stories/lo041304s3.shtml
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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>
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