[CPEO-BIF] Hillcrest, New York vapor intrusion update

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

DEC to test more Hillcrest homes for TCE
Venting of 100 properties is near completion, officials say

By Tom Wilber
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
October 1, 2007

HILLCREST -- The stakes of an ongoing cleanup in this small suburb are 
growing as state environmental officials finish installing systems to 
vent hazardous fumes from under more than 100 polluted properties while 
planning to test more homes this winter.

Contractors, working through the summer, have installed systems on all 
but three properties that have tested positive for trichloroethylene 
(TCE) pollution, Diane Carlton, a spokeswoman for the state Department 
of Environmental Conservation, said.

...

So far, investigations have focused on the former sites of CAE 
Electronics and Triple Cities Metal Finishing. Subterranean plumes of 
contamination have been found coming from both of those properties, 
adjacent to each other on Nowlan Road, according to DEC records.

TCMF has cooperated with the state by enlisting in a brownfield cleanup 
program to investigate and clean the former metal-plating factory, now 
vacant, Carlton said.

...

FOr the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071001/NEWS01/710010333/1001

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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