[CPEO-BIF] Martinsville (IN) vapor cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Vapor cleanup going well in Martinsville

By Amy Hillenburg
Mooresville/Decatur Times (IN)
February 16, 2005


After eight months of work, the cleanup of downtown buildings affected
by perchloroethylene vapor intrusion is going better than anticipated,
according to Fred W. Nichols, senior project manager with Astbury
Environmental Engineering Inc. The company was hired to test and conduct
a cleanup of PCE and TCE contaminated air that was detected in some of
the buildings on the west side of the square. PCE and TCE are found in
dry cleaning chemicals, 

The Environmental Protection Agency ordered Masterwear owner Jim Reed
and his former landlord Bill Cure to submit a plan for cleanup of the
vapor intrusion that was traced to the former commercial dry cleaning
site. Last year both Reed and Cure agreed in a letter to the EPA to take
responsibility for the pollution and the cost of the cleanup. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.md-times.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=7504&format=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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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