[CPEO-BIF] Billings, Montana PCE plume

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Project will test treatment method on plume

By MIKE STARK
Billings Gazette (MT)
December 12, 2007

An experiment begins today to see if underground injections will help
neutralize the threat of contaminated groundwater beneath a Billings
neighborhood.

...

Meanwhile, EPA is gearing up to begin excavating contaminated soil
that's believed to be the source of the polluted groundwater plume
beneath more than 400 homes, buildings and businesses.

...

The biggest concern is that vapors from the PCE in the groundwater are
migrating up into homes where people might inhale them. Of 45 homes
tested by the EPA, four showed elevated levels of PCE in their basements
and many others had elevated levels beneath their foundations.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/12/12/news/local/26-plume.txt

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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