2005 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 30 Jun 2005 17:40:48 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Endicott (NY) area vapor search widens
 
State plans to expand search for toxic gas in Town of Union

BY TOM WILBER
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
June 30, 2005

A comprehensive search for subterranean gases from industrial solvents
will continue moving out from the center of Endicott to include Endwell
and, eventually, West Corners, state officials said Wednesday. 

Officials expect data next month from about 25 more Endicott homes
tested in March, said Mary Jane Peachey, a scientist with the state
Department of Environmental Conservation. 

The latest findings will help clarify a picture that has been slowly
taking shape since the 2003 discovery that trichloroethylene (TCE)
pollution was forming gas and pushing into hundreds of village basements
through a process called vapor intrusion. 

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/today/news/stories/ne063005s175548.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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