2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 3 Sep 2007 06:18:13 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Vestal (NY) vapor intrusion
 
Vestal homes to be tested for TCE

By Tom Wilber
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
September 2, 2007

VESTAL -- Six more homes north of a polluted site on Vestal Parkway are scheduled to be fitted with special ventilation systems in coming weeks after tests found chemical vapors pose a health hazard.

Additionally, 21 more homes in the suburban neighborhood-- between a popular pedestrian rail trail and the Susquehanna River -- will be tested for the problem in the upcoming heating season, according to information from the Department of Environmental Conservation. Homes are typically tested when windows are shut and furnaces are running, which presents a worse case scenario for chemicals to enter through foundations.

The land, near King and Birch streets, is tainted by a subterranean plume of trichloroethylene (TCE) flowing under the Parkway and the rail trail from the former Hidden Valley Electronics site -- now occupied by American Family Fitness -- about a quarter mile to the south east.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070902/COMMUN02/709020365

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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