[CPEO-BIF] Hillcrest (NY) TCE cleanup

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State to press CAE on pollution cleanup
DEC seeks $500,000 over contamination in Hillcrest


By Tom Wilber
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
March 26, 2006

HILLCREST - The state will pursue legal action if necessary against CAE 
Electronics to recoup $500,000 in Superfund money to clean 
trichloroethylene pollution that has contaminated about 80 properties in 
the neighborhood, an official with the state Department of Environmental 
Conservation said Friday.

The agency has data identifying CAE's former plant on Nowlan Road as a 
source of a subterranean plume of vapors that have entered neighborhood 
basements through a process called vapor intrusion, said Mary Jane 
Peachey, a regional engineer with the DEC.

"We have sufficient information and data to support pursuing cost 
recovery, which is what we will do," Peachey said. State law does not 
require all sources of pollution be identified before a company is held 
accountable.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060326/NEWS01/603260356/1006

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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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