2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 6 Oct 2007 04:29:17 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Dayton (OH) community center
 
Site of new Dayton community center is contaminated
Salvation Army, former plant owners working to ensure that proper ventilation will make property safe.

By Margo Rutledge Kissell
Dayton Daily News (OH)
October 06, 2007

DAYTON - The Dayton command of the Salvation Army will break ground Sunday on its multimillion-dollar Ray and Joan Kroc Corps Community Center.

The charity recently completed raising $7.5 million locally for the project and will receive $66 million from the national Salvation Army to build and operate the community center on 17.5 acres at Webster and Keowee streets.

The property falls within a plume of contaminated groundwater in the vicinity of the Behr Dayton Thermal Products plant, 1600 Webster St.

The Dayton command's Maj. Tom Duperree said Salvation Army officials are working closely with Chrysler LLC, which for many years owned the Behr plant site, to remedy the problem.

The contamination is caused by trichloroethylene, or TCE, a chemical used as a degreaser that is in the groundwater. TCE fumes have migrated into nearby homes, businesses and schools, creating potentially hazardous vapors.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/10/05/ddn100607salvationarmy.html

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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
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