[CPEO-BIF] Solvent under East Somerville (MA) school

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Note: This articles says TCE, but it appears to refer to PCE. - LS]


Environmental concerns close two classrooms


By George P. Hassett
Somerville News (MA)
January 10, 2007


Contaminated soil from 50 Tufts St. caused two classrooms at the nearby 
Capuano School to be closed this week.  Tetrachloroethylene (TCE), a 
chemical used in the dry cleaning industry, has taken root underneath 
the soil of East Somerville and is moving around the neighborhood, said 
Superintendent of Schools Anthony Pierantozzi.

Pierantozzi stressed the two closed classrooms had elevated, yet still 
low, levels of TCE and were far above state standards. He said the 
classrooms were closed as an extreme precaution and to allow technicians 
free access to the rooms for testing and remediation. Students were 
moved into an alternative space in the building. The classrooms will 
remain closed until tests demonstrate "very low and stable levels" of 
TCE, he said.

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For the entire article, see
http://somervillenews.typepad.com/the_somerville_news/2007/01/environmental_c.html

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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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