[CPEO-BIF] Ashland Chemical site TCE vapor, Binghamton, NY

["lsiegel@cpeo.org" <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

3 city houses need venting to block TCE
Ashland Chemical to test 10 more properties on Smith, Travis avenues

By Tom Wilber
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
February 23, 2006	

BINGHAMTON - Three homes on Smith Avenue have been added to a long and
growing list of Southern Tier properties requiring ventilation systems to
block gases from underground pollution.

The properties, on the east side of Smith Avenue, are tainted by fumes from
trichloroethylene (TCE) linked to Ashland Chemical, a nearby
hazardous-waste-warehousing business on Broad Street.

Three other homes tested last summer in the area didn't qualify for the
systems, but air inside those homes will be continue to be monitored,
Ashland spokesman James Vitak said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060223/NEWS01/6022
30333/1006

-- 
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
http://www.cpeo.org


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