[CPEO-BIF] Victor, New York TCE and vapor intrusion

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Danger below: Toxic vapor woes in Victor also a threat elsewhere

Steve Orr
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (NY)
March 25, 2007

Last month, environmental officers began going into the basements of 
homes set amid the cornfields and hillsides of western Victor. They told 
residents they were there to test the air for the presence of toxic 
vapors rising from industrial chemicals in groundwater below their homes.

Many residents were shocked. This was the first they had heard that 
their property was contaminated.

Yet the illegally deposited solvents had been in the underground water 
for decades and were discovered in natural springs in 1990. That 
discovery forced the village of Victor to stop using the springs for 
drinking water.

But in the 17 years since, some families have continued to drink the 
water from private wells, homes have been built atop the contaminated 
groundwater and those and other homes have been sold to buyers who were 
told little or nothing about the danger below, a Democrat and Chronicle 
investigation has found.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070325/NEWS01/703250316/1002/NEWS


See also
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070325/NEWS01/703250315/1002/NEWS

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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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