[CPEO-BIF] Hancock Plaza, Rochester, NH indoor air

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Tenants may have to leave 'sick' Rochester building

By ADAM D. KRAUSS
Foster's Daily Democrat (Dover, NH)
August 23, 2007


ROCHESTER — Despite remediation efforts, poor air quality will 
eventually force the complete evacuation of the Hancock Plaza building, 
a multibusiness dwelling and the site of a former dry cleaning business.

Two of the tenants at the 88 Hancock St. building, Edward Jones and 
State Farm Insurance, remain there despite detection of indoor air 
contamination concentrations above acceptable levels.

The Department of Environmental Services hasn't outright condemned the 
building, but recommended against continued occupancy if the levels were 
not reduced to below their commercial indoor air screening levels 
(CIASL), according to letters to the building owner, Thomas M. Parks, 
president of Scotlincs, Inc. of Bedford.

At the end of June, Parks wrote the DES Hazard Waste Remediation Bureau 
to say the "only feasible option is to vacate the building as there 
seems to be no alternative mitigation system that will provide a 
practical means on keeping it occupied."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070823/FOSTERS01/708230083

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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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