[CPEO-BIF] Vapor tests at Middleport (NY) schools

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Remember, neither the absence of an imminent threat nor compliance with 
OSHA standard means that the air in a school is "safe." - LS]


Roy-Hart schools safe, study says

By Eric DuVall
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal (NY)
June 8, 2006

MIDDLEPORT — There is no imminent threat to students and staff at any of 
the Royalton-Hartland schools in Middleport due to FMC.

That is according to a letter sent to the district from the New York 
state Department of Health and received Wednesday afternoon following a 
set of March tests. The agency was seeking to determine whether volatile 
chemicals found in groundwater beneath the school were causing harmful 
vapors to seep through the ground and into the school, a process known 
as "soil vapor intrusion."

The chemical the wells tested positive for, Tricloroethene (TCE), is 
handled at the FMC chemical plant, seated a few hundred yards behind the 
high and middle schools in the Village of Middleport. It was found in 
wells dug on school property and in "low levels" in some crawl spaces, 
but not in any classrooms, according to the report.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lockportjournal.com/local/local_story_159010350.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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