[CPEO-BIF] Montgomery, AL TCE settlement

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Homeowners in Montgomery's TCE Contamination Area Receive Settlement Checks

WSFA-TV 12 (Montgomery, AL)
August 1, 2005

The checks are in the mail to more than a thousand north Montgomery
homeowners. The money is part of a settlement reached with the
department of transportation. 

The DOT has admitted to dumping a chemical decades ago at its Coliseum
Boulevard headquarters. The chemical eventually seeped into the ground
water in nearby residential subdivisions.

Phyllis English remembers when she first learned that the ground in her
neighborhood was contaminated. 

"A restaurant was planning on opening and they did some soil samples and
found it," English said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=3669011&nav=0RdEcpnh

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org
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