[CPEO-BIF] More TCE testing at Liberty School, Albany, OR

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Testing continues at Liberty; drinking water proves clean

By Hasso Hering
Albany Democrat-Herald (OR)
April 1, 2005

Groundwater tests at Albany's Liberty Elementary School turned up
elevated levels of TCE, a probable cancer agent, but the drinking water
and air in the school tested clean, officials report.

The tests were arranged by the Albany Research Center starting last week
to see whether underground contamination detected at the center had
spread. 

Today, the Department of Environmental Quality was testing the air
inside the school with even more sensitive instruments capable of
detecting TCE, if it's there, in parts of trillion.

The tests are intended to detect if vapor from the TCE in the
groundwater was finding its way into the school.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dhonline.com/articles/2005/04/01/news/local/news02.txt

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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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