[CPEO-BIF] Endicott Middle School sampling

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Latest tests show pollution not entering school
But high concentrations in ground near Snapp site baffle experts

BY TOM WILBER
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
November 30, 2004

ENDICOTT -- Recent test results indicate a cancer-causing agent detected 
in high concentrations in the ground around the Jennie F. Snapp Middle 
School is absent inside the building, a state scientist said Monday.

But scientists are baffled by results of samples taken last summer that 
show levels of the pollution that is vastly higher in the ground at the 
school and the surrounding neighborhood than anywhere else in the village.

Tetrachloroethene, also known as perchloroethylene or PCE, was 
consistently found between 5,000 and 25,000 micrograms per cubic meter 
in dozens of samples from the ground, according to a report from The 
Shaw Group -- an environmental contractor -- to the state Department of 
Environmental Conservation. That's as much as 20 times greater than soil 
concentrations of TCE -- a similar type of chemical -- affecting 
hundreds of buildings several blocks to the east.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/today/topstories/stories/to113004s133400.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
http://www.cpeo.org


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