[CPEO-BIF] Vapor testing at Ashland site (Binghamton, NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Ashland to test for underground vapors

Chemical gases could be infiltrating basements

BY TOM WILBER
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
August 7, 2005

BINGHAMTON -- Work crews for Ashland will begin testing for underground
chemical vapors in neighborhoods near the company's former chemical
distribution center on Bevier Street later this month, a spokesman said
Friday. 

The crews will test for vapors from trichloroethylene, or TCE, and other
industrial solvents beneath Smith and Travis avenues, between the plant
and the Chenango River, said Rick Gentry, project manager. Residents may
have to move their cars as workers install 15 devices, called soil gas
probes, under the streets. The work, scheduled to begin the week of Aug.
22, is expected to take a week or two. 

The pollution predates current operations at the plant, which is a
warehouse for hazardous waste being shipped from the area, company
spokesman Jim Vitak said. The plant, which Ashland bought in the late
1960s, was a distribution center for chemicals used by many area
manufacturers before the company converted it into a hazardous waste
transfer station in the late 1980s. 

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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