[CPEO-BIF] NY to test more Vestal homes for vapor intrusion

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State to test more Vestal houses for TCE

	
By Tom Wilber
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
March 21, 2006

VESTAL - State environmental and health officials will test about eight 
more homes north of a hazardous waste site in Vestal to see whether 
vapors from a subterranean plume of solvents are a public health threat.

The pollution is from trichloroethylene (TCE) that has seeped into the 
ground beneath the former Hidden Valley Electronics site, which is now a 
plaza housing American Family Fitness & Aerobics Center and several 
other businesses at 1808 Vestal Parkway East. It is forming a plume of 
vapors flowing about a half mile under the four-lane parkway and a 
pedestrian walkway into at least two homes on King Street.

Scientists are still analyzing samples collected earlier this year from 
12 homes in the neighborhood, near King, Maple and Birch streets, to 
determine the extent of the pollution, said Mary Jane Peachey, a 
regional engineer with the state Department of Environmental 
Conservation. When that is done, officials will decide whether they have 
to step up efforts to eliminate the pollution under the plaza, about a 
half mile to the southeast.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060321/NEWS01/603210315/1006

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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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