[CPEO-BIF] Vapor intrusion, buy-out in North Adams (MA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Student study finds decline in toxin

By Jennifer Huberdeau
North Adams Transcript (MA)
December 9, 2005

NORTH ADAMS - When Mount Holyoke student Skye Marcovicci came to the
city to research the contamination sites left behind by Sprague
Electric, she was told by a Harding Avenue resident about the trucks
full of barrels that used to drive down an access road to the
Fairgrounds Avenue dump.

Those barrels, which were eventually buried behind the company's Brown
Street facility, would later to be found to contain a liquid
trichloroethylene mixture ? a toxic chemical.

Marcovicci, who presented the findings with five other students of Mount
Holyoke College professor Emily Monosson's class, showed pictures of the
contamination sites from around the West End of the city. About 15
people attended the presentation Thursday evening at Massachusetts
College of Liberal Arts.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thetranscript.com/headlines/ci_3294902

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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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