[CPEO-BIF] Gates TCE sampling results

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA: Little solvent near Gates

By Lou Kilzer
Rocky Mountain News (CO)
January 13, 2005

There is little evidence that an industrial solvent has polluted
groundwater outside the site of the old Gates rubber plant in Denver,
the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday. 

The EPA dug 16 test wells near residential areas after high levels of
TCE were found at the Gates site. Only one well contained TCE at levels
above government standards, the agency told a City Council committee. 

The suspect well - just north of Interstate 25 on Logan Street - had
high TCE levels only at the deepest part of the test well. That is good
news, council members were told, since TCE is heavier than water and
tends to sink, not rise. 

The news is "interesting, but doesn't settle the matter," said longtime
former Gates-area resident David Metsch. His daughter, Sarah, was born
in 1980 with spina bifida, a major birth defect in the formation of the
spine. 

Metsch says there have been at least three other spina bifida cases near
the Gates plant and wonders if TCE may have been more of a factor many
years ago. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3467024,00.html


See also
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2650070,00.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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