[CPEO-BIF] Norco High School (CA) vinyl chloride

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contaminants detected

By Joanna Parsons
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (CA)
July 13, 2006

NORCO - Low levels of contaminants have been detected in buildings 
adjacent to the Norco High library, and the state wants to know where 
the chemicals are coming from and why.

Norco High sits near Wyle Laboratories and was among several areas 
tested for cancer-causing chemicals that leaked from the former 
munitions-testing site and into the community.

Rafat Abbasi, senior project manager for the Department of Toxic 
Substances Control, the agency overseeing the Wyle cleanup and 
investigation, said low levels of vinyl chloride were detected in the 
school's Buildings B and D, located in the northern section of campus, 
in May.

The vinyl chloride levels were lower than those previously detected in 
the school's science building in January and September, and therefore do 
not pose a health risk.

Nevertheless, DTSC is requiring Wyle to take indoor air and groundwater 
samples at Building B and D, which were tested for contaminants in July 
2005 and January of this year, and were found to contain no levels at 
the time.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4044601
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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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