[CPEO-BIF] "Nothing alarming" at Oregon school near TCE site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

TCE probe finds nothing alarming at Liberty School


Corvallis Gazette-Times (Albany Democrat-Herald) (OR)
May 14, 2005

The continuing investigation of TCE contamination near Albany's Liberty
School has turned up nothing alarming, according to a state official. 

Geoff Brown of the state Department of Environmental Quality in Eugene
provided an update Friday in advance of a public meeting scheduled for
6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the school.

For a couple of months, the DEQ has been investigating the extent of
contamination with trichloroethylene (TCE), an industrial solvent and
suspected cancer agent, stemming from the Albany Research Center across
the street from Liberty School.

The research center discovered the underground contamination in March.
"The central message is that there are no alarming results for the
school," Brown said Friday.

...

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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
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