From: | Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com> |
Date: | 16 Nov 2007 17:15:04 -0000 |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Behr - Chrysler, Dayton, Ohio |
Chrysler to clean up only a portion of contaminated residences By Ryan Justin Fox Dayton Daily News (OH) November 16, 2007 DAYTON - Environmental officials broke the news to close to a hundred residents at Kiser Middle School Thursday that Chrysler Corporation agreed to clean up only a portion of residences with contaminated groundwater seeping up in their homes. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said that it will use available taxpayer funds to cover the other 200 potentially-contaminated homes in the eastern portion of the McCook Field neighborhood. EPA officials found dangerously-high levels of trichloroethylene (TCE) in homes and schools in the immediate vicinity of Behr Dayton Thermal Products plant at 1600 Webster Street last year. Environmental officials said that the chemical - which used to be used as a degreaser and a cleaner - seeped into soil and groundwater after a spill and is now vaporizing into harmful air in residences. ... For the entire article, see http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/11/16/ddn111607epaweb.html -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@list.cpeo.org http://www.cpeo.org/mailman/listinfo/brownfields | |
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