2007 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: 19 Oct 2007 18:40:27 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Norco High (CA) - Wyle "not to blame"
 
Wyle Labs not to blame
Source of school contamination still unknown

By Liset Marquez
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (CA)
October 19, 2007

NORCO - The state's Department of Toxic Substances Control has confirmed that Wyle Laboratories is not the source of airborne chemicals found in Norco High School's science building.

Rafat Abbasi, project manager for the state's Department of Toxic Substances Control, said the source is likely coming from inside the building, though it is still unknown.

Wyle Labs, on 400-plus acres to the east of the current high school, tested munitions for the federal government in the 1950s and '60s. Tests have shown that some chemicals in the groundwater may have moved from the Wyle site to under nearby residential neighborhoods. The chemicals include trichloroethylene, vinyl chloride and perchlorate.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_7219970

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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