[CPEO-BIF] TCE in Tucson

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chemicals detected on W. Side strike fears
Residents in the area where 'lower-level' contaminations have been found
are said to face 'no immediate risk.'

BRAD BRANAN
Tucson Citizen
October 2, 2004

JoeAnn Lanier lost her parents, her husband and a brother to cancer.

She thinks they were poisoned by TCE (trichloroethylene), which
contaminated South Side water for more than 30 years until the early
1980s, according to one government estimate. Officials took too long to
respond to the tainted water, she said.

"Imagine going home and your family is gone. That's what it's been
like," said Lanier, owner of Lanier Enterprise and Realty. "It's been
like war. The fact is, we've been fighting a war for years."

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality recently learned that
two chemicals found in high concentrations on the South Side, TCE and
PCE (perchloroethylene), have been found in two West Side subdivisions.
Lanier and others involved in the South Side case hope the official
response is more swift and effective on the West Side.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=local&story_id=100204_a4_tcemain

RELATED STORY

West Side soil tests begin Monday
TEYA VITU
Tucson Citizen
October 2, 2004


The state will start taking soil samples Monday near the Silver Creek I
and II subdivisions on the West Side to see whether the ground is
contaminated with cancer-causing chemicals.

The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality could confirm March and
July findings of low levels of the chemicals by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners.

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for the entire article, see
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/index.php?page=local&story_id=100204a10_tcehomes

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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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