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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA to test more Shenandoah homes

Polluted sites to get different treatments

By Dan Shapley
Poughkeepsie Journal (NY)
February 20, 2005


SHENANDOAH -- The Environmental Protection Agency will return to the
Shenandoah area of East Fishkill before winter ends to test the air in
more homes where toxic vapors are a concern. 

But the EPA may not set a goal of removing all detectable vapors in
homes there, as it has in a nearby East Fishkill neighborhood, the
Hopewell Precision site. 

Groundwater in both neighborhoods is polluted with chemical solvents.
Shenandoah is polluted with tetrachloroethylene, or PCE, and, to a
lesser extent, trichloroethylene, or TCE. PCE in groundwater breaks down
into TCE. Hopewell Precision has TCE and trichloroethane, or TCA, in the
water. 

...

For the entire article,
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/today/localnews/stories/lo022005s1.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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