[CPEO-BIF] Vinyl chloride at Norco High (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tests at Norco school fail to resolve cancer-causing gas's origin

TESTS: A cancer-causing gas could come from the building itself, not 
Wyle contamination beneath it.

By PAIGE AUSTIN
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
February 10, 2007

Cancer-causing vinyl chloride gas inside Norco High School could be 
linked to common building materials rather than to underground pollution 
from a nearby toxic waste site, state officials said this week.

Although soil gas tests from beneath the school are far from conclusive, 
state toxics officials this week said they haven't found a pathway 
between the groundwater pollution and the gas inside the school. The 
missing link leads state scientists to consider the unsettling 
possibility that the toxic gas is coming from the building itself.

It's a mystery that leaves the community wondering: If building 
materials are the culprit, how many students at other schools face the 
same health threat?

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_R_wyle10.45a8d8b.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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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