[CPEO-BIF] Endicott (NY) apartments vented

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Endicott gains more pollution venting systems
IBM having units installed at two apartment buildings


By Tom Wilber
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
December 3, 2005

Contractors for IBM Corp. are making some progress in installing
safeguards to protect Endicott residents from solvent pollution, but
more than 40 properties still remain vulnerable, a spokesman from the
state Department of Health reported Friday.

Work is under way to install systems to divert a subterranean plume of
chemical vapors from two apartment buildings on Tracy Street and one on
Adams Avenue occupied by young families, said Jeff Hammond, a spokesman
for the state DOH.

The properties were featured in an October Press & Sun-Bulletin report
that highlighted the problem.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051203/NEWS01/512030328/1006

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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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