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DEC testing Ithaca site for possible pollution spread

Dave Pieklik
NBC3/WSTM.com (NY)
June 16, 2004

The state Department of Environmental Conservation is testing the
Emerson Power Transmission Company in Ithaca for a possible toxic danger.

D.E.C. officials are overseeing the drilling of the area and say if they
find pollution there, they would not be at all surprised.  The story
goes back some 17 years when the company discovered that the prior
owners had apparently spilled a large quantity of a solvent called
trichloroethylene, or T.C.E.

D.E.C. engineer Carl Cuipylo (Chip-el-oh) says if that's the case, the
T.C.E. would easily infiltrate the foundations of nearby homes.  They're
drilling on two sides of Joyce Muchan's house.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=1947264&nav=2aKDNyNU


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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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