[CPEO-BIF] Vapor mitigation at Norco High School, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

School banks on air flow to reduce levels of cancer-causing chemicals

By Joanna Parsons
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
June 21, 2006

NORCO -- This weekend, while Norco High School students enjoy their 
summer, air flow enhancer devices will be installed in three of the 
school's science rooms to reduce the levels of cancer-causing chemicals 
that leaked from the 429-acre Wyle Laboratories site nearby.

And officials from the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the state 
agency overseeing the Wyle Labs cleanup, are still trying to persuade 
residents within the contamination plume to let them test for 
contaminants inside their homes.

"We are very proactive," said Rafat Abbasi, DTSC senior project manager. 
"We don't want people to have the potential of exposure."

El Segundo-based Wyle Labs tested munitions, rocket motors and 
electronics at the Hillside Avenue site from the 1950s to 2002. 
Cancer-causing chemicals leaked from the site into the groundwater of 
the surrounding community.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_3960951
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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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