[CPEO-BIF] Hillcrest vapor mitigation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hillcrest cleanup costs may fall to businesses

BY TOM WILBER
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY
June 19, 2005

HILLCREST -- The cost of cleaning trichloroethylene (TCE) vapors 
affecting at least 100 properties in the center of this residential 
neighborhood is quickly nearing $500,000 -- a bill state officials 
expect to pass on to industry responsible for the pollution.

That includes Triple Cities Metal Finishing and CAE Electronics, 
companies that once operated neighboring factories on Nowlan Road, 
according to state Department of Environmental Conservation records.

The agency is not ruling out others.

"We know it will be those two, at a minimum, but we don't want to close 
the door," said Mary Jane Peachey, a regional engineer with the state 
Department of Environmental Conservation.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/sunday/news/stories/ne061905s173530.shtml


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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Fax: 650/961-8918
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