[CPEO-BIF] Testing for vapors in North Adams (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Harding Avenue tested for toxins

By Jennifer Huberdeau
North Adams Transcript (MA)
September 1, 2005

NORTH ADAMS -- The same toxic fumes that resulted in the purchase and
demolition of 17 homes in the city's West End are now the subject of
another investigation in the Harding Avenue area.

Two new soil-gas monitoring points and an additional groundwater
sampling well are being installed near 60 and 90 Harding Avenue by
Blasland, Bouck & Lee Inc., an engineering firm. The firm is overseeing
the groundwater monitoring program associated with the former Sprague
Electric Co.'s Brown and Marshall Street facilities.

"This is something standard. There is no cause for concern," Elizabeth
M. Stinehart, spokeswoman for the state Department of Environmental
Protection's Western Region said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thetranscript.com/Stories/0,1413,103~9049~3036277,00.html

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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>
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