[CPEO-BIF] Cleanup goals adjusted in Hopewell Junction (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA seeks to clear homes' tainted air

East Fishkill neighborhood wants action
By Dan Shapley
Poughkeepsie Journal
February 2, 2005

HOPEWELL JUNCTION -- The Environmental Protection Agency has set a new
goal for the polluted neighborhood in East Fishkill: Any contaminated
air inside homes is too much. 

That means more homes could be ventilated, and some with ventilation
systems could get additional attention. 

The decision, which EPA officials detailed to the Poughkeepsie Journal
Tuesday, is the latest development in a national debate about how to
deal with vapors of trichloroethylene (TCE) that seep up from polluted
groundwater into homes. 

"We'll address anything we can detect," said Dick Salkie, chief of the
EPA's Removal Action Branch in Region 2, which includes New York. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/today/localnews/stories/lo020205s6.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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