Pennsylvania vapor intrusion sampling

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA completes round of tests for chemical in Perkasie homes

Federal agency expects to release TCE vapor results in May.

By Pervaiz Shallwani
Allentown Morning Call (PA)
April 15, 2004

Federal environmental investigators announced Wednesday they have
finished checking 16 Perkasie homes for a potential cancer-causing
chemical that contaminates water and may send fumes into basements.

The Environmental Protection Agency has been investigating vapor
contamination in homes and businesses near a contaminated former
industrial plant in Perkasie.

In January, the agency said it found higher-than-normal levels of vapors
from the pollutant trichloroethylene, or TCE, in 22 of 57 soil samples
it tested in a 20-block radius near the Stainless Inc. site on S. Ninth Street.

The original tests, taken in November, were spurred by the discovery of
higher-than-normal levels of TCE vapors in a sump pump at Delbar
Products Inc. at 601 W. Spruce St.

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for the entire story, see
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-b3_2vaporsapr15,0,424322.story?coll=all-newslocal-hed

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Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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