[CPEO-BIF] New York VOC registry

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State probe of toxic sites discussed

Data sought from 4 valley neighborhoods

By Dan Shapley
Poughkeepsie Journal
June 11, 2005

MILLBROOK - The state Department of Health is investigating four
mid-Hudson neighborhoods - among nine statewide - in an effort to
identify what diseases may be caused by drinking contaminated water.

The Shenandoah Road and Hopewell Precision Superfund sites in East
Fishkill, the Mohonk Road Superfund site in Stone Ridge and the
Greenbush area of Hyde Park are in the Volatile Organic Compound
Registry. Homes there are served by private wells that were contaminated
by industrial solvents or, in the Hyde Park case, a gasoline additive.

Betsy Lewis-Michl, chief of the community exposure research section of
the Center for Environmental Health, gave an overview of the program
Friday in Millbrook during the Cornell University Program on Breast
Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors forum. About 40 attended.

Several Dutchess County residents detailed what they perceive as unusual
disease clusters caused by bad water.

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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
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