[CPEO-BIF] Vapor intrusion at Franklin Township (NJ) school

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[I'm not sure the reporter got it right, but 140 micrograms per cubic 
meter doesn't seem like a protective standard for air inside an 
elementary school! - LS]

Vapors Under school to go
EPA taking action. Levels not high enough to cause cancer. Degreasing 
agent seen as hazardous by agency.


By TOM QUIGLEY
Easton Express-Times (PA)
December 11, 2006

FRANKLIN TWP. - The federal Environmental Protection Agency is planning 
to vent trichloroethylene (TCE) vapors from under a township elementary 
school and other area residences, according to documents filed with the 
Warren County Health Department.

No exact timetable has been released for the work to begin.

The industrial solvent traditionally used as a degreasing agent is 
considered a hazardous substance by the environmental agency. The school 
lies within the area of the Pohatcong Valley Groundwater Contamination 
Superfund Site.

Air samples taken within the school revealed concentrations of TCE that 
were not elevated, according to an EPA report released in August.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/nj/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1165813621231480.xml&coll=2

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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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