[CPEO-BIF] Sprague Electric TCE vapors, North Adams, MA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxin's path over 20 years mapped out

By Jennifer Huberdeau
North Adams Transcript (MA)
December 6, 2005

NORTH ADAMS ? When 42,401 pounds of liquid trichloroethylene mixture was
pumped out of the 1,200 or so 55-gallon drums Sprague Electric buried at
the Fairgrounds Avenue dump in 1991, most city residents thought the
hazardous waste had gone the way of the company that put it there. It
was not until 1997 when toxins began to seep into homes along the city's
West End that thoughts of trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination of
groundwater began to re-enter the public consciousness.

Now, as the state Department of Environmental Protection standards are
poised to become tighter for the TCE amounts allowed in groundwater, a
group of undergraduate students from Mount Holyoke College are coming to
the city to present a study detailing what has happened with the plume
of contaminants over the past 20 years. The group, led by professor
Emily Monosson, will present its findings Thursday at 6:30 p.m. in the
Sullivan Lounge at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts.
...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thetranscript.com/localnews/ci_3284016

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Lenny Siegel
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