[CPEO-BIF] "What's the Value of a Toxic Home?"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

What's the Value of a Toxic Home?
	
Beth Bresnahan
RisMedia (Norwalk, CT)
June 12, 2006

RISMEDIA, June 13, 2006—(KRT)—Tamera Stewart told the story of her 
property like she had so many times before, as an assessment review 
board listened, mouths agape.

When she finished, the board sat silent, and one woman's eyes darted 
from left to right at the others.

"Well ... wow," she finally said.

Stewart just laughed. That's an improvement over last year; all she 
could do then was cry.

Stewart's property at 15 Park Ave. is contaminated with both 
trichloroethylene, or TCE, and PCBs, two known carcinogenic chemicals 
that, over the years, seeped -- by way of groundwater -- under her home 
from the General Electric Co. capacitor plant across the street. Stewart 
is one of 47 residents in town asking for reductions in their property 
assessments due to contamination this year -- a number more than triple 
such challenges normally received annually, according to Town Assessor 
Christine Latham.

...

For the entire article, see
http://rismedia.com/index.php/article/articleview/14844/1/1/

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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