[CPEO-BIF] Pottstown (PA) air monitoring

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEP sets up stations to monitor air quality in Collegeville area 

Evan Brandt 
Pottstown Mercury (PA)
December 29, 2004 

COLLEGEVILLE -- The state has established two air monitoring stations in
the area six months after telling angry residents that it would. 

One station is located in Evansburg State Park and another at the
College Street School Community Building in Trappe, owned by the
Perkiomen Valley School District.

"We're conducting this effort in follow-up to mobile air monitoring that
took place in Collegeville earlier this year," said Joseph Feola,
director of the Southeast Regional office of the state Department of
Environmental Protection in Norristown.

"Data from these newly installed stationary monitors will provide
valuable information regarding air toxins in the Collegeville area, and
allow us to compare these results to other regional and statewide
locations," he said in a prepared statement.

It was during a public meeting on June 29, 2004, aimed primarily at
explaining the results of an air contamination study in Pottstown, that
state officials revealed even worse contamination had been found in the
air in Collegeville. In both cases, the substance in question was
trichloroethylene, better known as TCE, a suspected carcinogen.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pottstownmercury.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13642332&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=18041&rfi=6

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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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