[CPEO-BIF] More vapor testing in Hopewell Junction (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA to test more homes for toxic vapors
Effort boosted at Superfund site

By Dan Shapley
Poughkeepsie Journal (NY)
December 3, 2005

HOPEWELL JUNCTION — The Environmental Protection Agency will soon test 
the air for toxic vapors in dozens of additional homes as part of an 
expanded effort to address pollution at the Hopewell Precision Superfund 
site in East Fishkill, officials said at a meeting Thursday night.

In a process called vapor intrusion, gases from polluted groundwater can 
seep up through soil and accumulate in homes.

Groundwater in the neighborhood was polluted, the EPA believes, when a 
metal cabinet manufacturer on Ryan Drive, Hopewell Precision, dumped 
degreasing solvents in the 1970s and 1980s.

The EPA has already installed ventilation systems at 47 homes, and water 
filters at 37 where indoor air or drinking water was tainted with 
trichloroethylene, or TCE.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051203/NEWS04/512030316

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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
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