[CPEO-BIF] Montgomery, Alabama TCE plume

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State offers cash to homeowners as toxic plume spreads

By Crystal Bonvillian
Montgomery Advertiser (AL)
February 26, 2007

A 600-acre toxic underground plume in north-central Montgomery continues 
to spread, prompting the state to offer cash to homeowners in a new 
100-acre area and commercial property owners throughout the entire site.

About 600 households and businesses will receive a letter in the next 
day or two from the Alabama Department of Transportation about the 
Coliseum Boulevard Plume. ALDOT officials mailed the letters Saturday.

The agency is proposing that a landowner receive 5.1 percent of his 2006 
property value if he agrees not to access the groundwater, gives the 
state access to the land for testing and promises not to sue the state. 
The payments are expected to total about $4.5 million.


...

TCE is not a health risk as long as the groundwater remains underground, 
according to the Alabama Department of Public Health.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070226/NEWS/702260328/1001

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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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