[CPEO-BIF] Pottstown landfill " isn?t source of TCE"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Study: Landfill isn't source of TCE 

Evan Brandt
Pottstown Mercury (PA)
February 25, 2005

It is technically impossible for the Pottstown Landfill to be the source
of the carcinogenic chemical that has contaminated more than 100 wells
along Farmington Avenue in Upper Pottsgrove, a specialist said this
week. 

Timothy N. Kyper is engineering manager for GAI Consultants out of
Pittsburgh, the firm that was hired by the Pottstown Land-fill Closure
Co-mmittee to conduct a review of the Pottstown Landfill. While
presenting his findings Wed-nesday, Kyper said his firm?s review of how
groundwater flows in the region has led him to conclude that the metal
solvent trichloroethylene, better known as TCE, would have to flow
upstream underground in order to be the source of the contamination.

"Folks, it?s technically impossible, it can?t happen," Kyper told the
Landfill Closure Committee.

Contained in the report?s conclusions is the observation that
"groundwater flow from beneath the landfill is to the south and
southwest, away from the direction of Farmington Avenue."

Kyper is not alone in this opinion.

The closure committee has hired an independent team of scientists, Henry
S. Cole and Fred Lee, to review and comment on GAI?s work. Cole said the
current evidence supports Kyper?s statement.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pottstownmercury.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14033112&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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