[CPEO-BIF] New TCE vapor investigation in Endicott (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

West Endicott residents told about plans for TCE cleanup


By Tom Wilber
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
February 10, 2006

ENDICOTT - Plans to clean and test a neighborhood tainted with TCE in
the western part of the village drew lots of questions from an audience
of about 50 people at a public meeting Thursday.

Technicians will begin determining what homes need to be tested around
an industrial site on 312 Maple St., beginning this winter, Thomas
Suozzo, an engineer with the state Department of Environmental
Conservation, told the crowd in a lecture hall at Union-Endicott High
School. Additionally, work will begin to excavate and truck dirt tainted
with trichloroethylene (TCE) in coming months.

Some residents asked why pollution at the site, which was documented in
the mid-1990s, wasn't addressed sooner.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060210/NEWS01/602100339/1001

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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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