[CPEO-BIF] Hillcrest (NY) TCE vapors

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hillcrest residents want TCE info

BY TOM WILBER
Press & Sun-Bulletin 
June 11, 2005 

HILLCREST -- Latest tests show unacceptable levels of trichloroethylene
gases entering more buildings in this residential neighborhood, and the
refusal of state health and environmental officials to release
information is drawing criticism from a citizens group. 

The gas, coming from a subterranean plume of solvents leaching from
industrial sites, is affecting "some" buildings tested in the
neighborhood last heating season, according to a fact sheet released
Friday by the state departments of Health and Environmental
Conservation. 

Officials would not say this week how many buildings, of approximately
140 tested last heating season, were affected. More information will be
released at a public meeting June 23 at the Chenango Valley Middle
School and High School, said Rob Kinney, a spokesman for the state
Department of Health. 

Bruce Oldfield, a Hillcrest resident and member of Hillcrest
Environmental Action Team, said the delay is unacceptable. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/saturday/news/stories/ne061105s171876.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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