[CPEO-BIF] "Beyond the plume" in Endicott

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents near plume get help
Endicott to draft form letter they can send to state

BY GREG ERBSTOESSER
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
November 30, 2004

ENDICOTT -- The village will take up the cause of residents who believe 
their properties are affected by chemical contamination but who live 
outside the identified contamination plume area.

The predicament has left them frustrated, Trustee Betty Havel said.

Trustees agreed Monday to draft a form letter for affected residents. 
The letters will be sent to state health officials for consideration to 
be included in the chemical vapor ventilation program that so far 
includes about 480 homes.

The decision to draft a formal letter came during a work session Monday 
night. That's when trustees met for more than two hours to hear a 
progress report from their environmental attorney, Dean Sommer of 
Albany, and their newly hired environmental engineering consultant, Mark 
Millspaugh, president of Sterling Environmental Engineering of Latham.

…

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/today/news/stories/ne113004s133427.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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