[CPEO-BIF] "Poisons hit home" - vapor intrusion in New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Poisons hit home 

By ALEX NUSSBAUM
Bergen Record (NJ)
April 10, 2005 

New Jersey's toxic legacy has taken a new turn: Hazardous chemicals are
migrating far beyond polluted sites, contaminating the air inside homes
and businesses.

Fumes - from dry-cleaning fluids, degreasing solvents, gasoline and
other chemicals - are rising up through cracks in foundations and
seeping into homes around utility pipes. In a state with more than
15,500 known polluted sites, where virtually every community has an old
gas station or some other tainted property, the vapors are raising new
questions about the risks of living near contamination.

"Indoor air quality is going to be huge over the next year or two," said
Robert Spiegel, executive director of the Edison Wetlands Association,
an environmental group that works with neighbors of contaminated land.
"As people move into New Jersey, buy these homes, put their kids into
these homes and day-care centers built on toxic plumes, we foresee this
as a train wreck that is unavoidable."

In North Jersey, the state has ordered testing in two Fair Lawn
neighborhoods where fumes from dry-cleaning chemicals and a gas spill
could be seeping into homes. 

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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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