TCE and PAHs and Mass. Art museum site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Public wants former Sprague contamination examined 

By Claire M.L. Bourne
Berkshire Eagle (MA) 
August 18, 2004

NORTH ADAMS -- A group of residents has petitioned the firm in charge of
necessary remediation at the former Sprague Electric Co. campus to hold
a public meeting on potentially hazardous material identified underneath
the complex's Building 8. 

Katherine Myers, the director of marketing and public relations for the
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, said the meeting, scheduled
for Tuesday, will be the latest in a long string of public hearings
related to the cleanup of the buildings once used by Sprague.

"In the late '90s, we had one to two of these a week," she said. "This
is the first one in a while."

Higher than normal levels of trichloroethylene and polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons were detected in soil samples taken from under Building 8's
concrete floor last spring, said Jeffrey Holden, an associate with
Blasland, Bouck and Lee, the engineering firm charged by Great American
Financial Resources Inc. with managing response action at the site. More
samples were tested in March and April of this year.

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