[CPEO-BIF] Montgomery, Alabama - TCE under homes

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

State offers plume settlements to new owners

By Andre Coe
Montgomery Advertiser (AL)
July 27, 2007

The Alabama Department of Transportation mailed about 300 letters 
Thursday to property owners who might not be aware of groundwater 
restrictions placed on their land as part of a 2005 court settlement.

As part of the settlement, the state paid a total of about $3.5 million 
to more than 1,500 residents in the Chisholm, Eastern Meadows and Vista 
View communities whose houses were above a toxic underground plume, 
which sits at least 15 feet below the surface.

Residents who have purchased property in the plume area since the 
settlement might be entitled to payment from the state if they were not 
made aware of the plume at the time of purchase, according to the 
department.

...

Groundwater contaminated with trichloroethylene, or TCE, was discovered 
in 1999 in the north Montgomery area.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070727/NEWS/707270333/1001

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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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