[CPEO-BIF] Hlillcrest, NY - more vapor intrusion

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

TCE fight expands in Hillcrest
Fume-prevention systems planned for 29 buildings

By Tom Wilber
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
June 22, 2007

HILLCREST -- Twenty-nine more buildings will require systems to block 
fumes from a hazardous chemical flowing through the ground, bringing the 
total number of properties needing the safeguard to more than 100.

The decision by state environmental and health officials to install the 
systems comes after the latest round of testing showed trichloroethylene 
(TCE) in or under the buildings or nearby properties. TCE -- an 
industrial solvent associated with illnesses ranging from cancer to 
birth defects -- can form gas and seep through foundations of 
unprotected homes through a process called vapor intrusion.

The problem has affected more than 480 properties in Endicott and dozens 
more in Binghamton, Vestal and Norwich.

The latest round of positive test results in Hillcrest, almost five 
years after the problem was first discovered in neighboring homes, 
raises more questions about the scope of pollution affecting the small 
suburban neighborhood and the effectiveness of efforts to clean it.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070622/NEWS01/706220333/1001

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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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