[CPEO-BIF] Gates Rubber cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Gates plans TCE cleanup 
Solvent taints groundwater on parcel up for rezoning

By Kris Hudson 
Denver Post Staff Writer 
Thursday, December 9, 2004 

Gates Corp. intends next month to begin cleaning up a hazardous
industrial solvent discovered on the eastern portion of its former
Denver campus, a Gates official said Wednesday. 

"Our goal as a company right now in having uncovered this issue is to
get into the field and clean it up as soon as possible," Tom Reeve,
Gates' director of corporate development, told a Denver City Council committee.

Gates hopes to rezone the 30-acre parcel and sell it next year, but
first the company will lead the removal of trichloroethylene, or TCE,
from the former rubber-plant site, he said. TCE is a highly volatile
liquid used as an industrial cleaner. Breathing small amounts of its
vapors may cause headaches, lung irritation and dizziness.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2585575,00.html

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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
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