[CPEO-BIF] NY vapor intrusion site to be listed

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hazard site to be put on Superfund list 

Poughkeepsie Journal (NY)
September 23, 2004


HOPEWELL JUNCTION -- The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to
add the contaminated former Hopewell Precision site on Ryan Drive to its
federal Superfund list today. 

The EPA believes the spill of trichloroethylene, or TCE, occurred
between 1974 and 1978, before any of the Ryan Drive facility's current
26 employees worked there. The EPA has labeled the company a
"potentially responsible party'' for the spill. 

The EPA put filters in 37 homes where the TCE concentration in water
exceeds standards, and ventilation systems at 17 homes to keep people
from breathing vapors from polluted groundwater. 

...

for the entire newsbrief, scroll down from
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/today/localnews/stories/lo092304s11.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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