[CPEO-BIF] Smith Corona TCE, Cortlandville, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Concerns of waste product TCE hover around Cortlandville

By: Ryan Dean
News-10 Now (Syracuse, NY)
August 2, 2006

		
		
Smith Corona left the Cortland area in the '90s, but the company is 
making news again. According to the state's Department of Conservation, 
the company that manufactured typewriters and calculators used the 
cleaning chemical TCE.

"When it was dumped by Smith Corona, a lot of old plants did this, they 
dumped it into the ground, or they had sump pumps they dumped it into. 
It gets into the soil and percolates down and winds up in ground water," 
said Diane Carleton, of NYSDEC Public Affairs.

...

The areas shaded in blue will continue to be monitored by the DEC, while 
homeowners in the yellow have higher concentrations of TCE and are 
recommended to use a mitigation system to rid the chemical.

...

For the entire article, see
http://news10now.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=74814

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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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