[CPEO-BIF] Endicott (NY) - 24 homes still need ventilation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

24 sites still have TCE vapor
Endicott, Union properties listed in IBM-DEC correspondence


By Tom Wilber
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
January 18, 2007

Vapors from subterranean pollution are still penetrating 24 properties 
-- including some occupied by renters -- in Endicott and the Town of 
Union, years after state officials identified the problem and took steps 
to fix it.

The properties, identified in correspondence earlier this month from IBM 
Corp. to the state Department of Environmental Conservation, didn't 
receive protective ventilation systems to block trichloroethylene (TCE) 
vapors in polluted hot spots throughout the area.

Since vapor intrusion was discovered in 2003, IBM Corp. has installed 
systems on more than 450 properties south of its former microelectronics 
plant on North Street. The DEC has installed systems on about a dozen 
more in other parts of the village and the town.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070118/NEWS01/701180373/1006

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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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