[CPEO-BIF] More vapor testing in Hudson Valley

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEC will test air at local sites

Polluted water could release vapors

By Dan Shapley
Poughkeepsie Journal
February 26, 2005


The state Department of Environmental Conservation will test the air at
as many as 27 hazardous waste sites in Dutchess and Ulster counties,
where toxic vapors could be seeping up from polluted groundwater.

These sites include homes, businesses and a day-care center.

Across New York, more than 400 sites could be in line for air tests,
including 68 in DEC's Region 3, which includes Dutchess, Ulster, Orange,
Putnam, Rockland, Westchester and Sullivan counties.

The DEC has not yet decided which of the sites it will test. In November
it published a draft policy for dealing with "vapor intrusion" that will
guide its decisions about specific sites.

The list was obtained by the Poughkeepsie Journal through a Freedom of
Information Law request. The list mirror sites the Poughkeepsie Journal
identified as potential concerns in April 2004.

The DEC has identified these sites because there is a potential for
people to be exposed to hazardous vapors. Decisions about how to clean
up these sites were made prior to 2003 -- before the DEC considered
toxic vapors a risk.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/today/frontpage/stories/fr022605s1.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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