[CPEO-BIF] TCE in Fruit Valley, Vancouver, Washington

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Port: Fruit Valley groundwater on mend

BY ERIK ROBINSON
The Columbian (WA)
May 9, 2007

While Fruit Valley residents sleep, a tainted plume of groundwater 
underlying their west Vancouver neighborhood steadily gets a little less 
hazardous.

That was the message the Port of Vancouver shared with residents during 
a pair of neighborhood meetings and tours last week. Port officials 
wanted to bring residents up to date on the cleanup of groundwater 
pollution severe enough to cause vapors of trichloroethylene to waft 
into six homes at higher-than-expected levels.

...

Meanwhile, the port continues to operate vacuum systems in six homes 
identified with relatively high levels of TCE vapor in the ambient air.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.columbian.com/news/localNews/05092007news137703.cfm

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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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