[CPEO-BIF] Vapor tests at Port Jefferson (NY) high school

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA will test air at ELVHS
Meeting tonight on toxins found beneath the school

by Peter C. Mastrosimone
Port [Jefferson] Times Record (NY)
February 2, 2006

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to test the air quality at
Earl L. Vandermeulen High School because a plume of toxic chemicals has
been found in the groundwater beneath the building.

There is no reported evidence of any air contamination, according to
both EPA spokesman Jim Haklar and Port Jefferson Superintendent of
Schools Robert Aloise, but because chemicals like those in the water can
migrate through soil to the surface, officials are concerned.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.portjefferson.com/picpaperframe.lasso?-token.issue=2006-02-02

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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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