[CPEO-BIF] TCE in Queens (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

STATE FEARS TOXIC SPREAD IN QUEENS

By ANGELA MONTEFINISE and KATHIANNE BONIELLO
New York Post
December 9, 2007

A toxin found under the former Swingline stapler factory in Queens - a
building that was once MoMA's temporary home - may have spread to
neighboring buildings, according to state officials.

State Department of Environmental Conservation officials are conducting
tests at eight to 12 buildings within a one-block radius of the former
stapler factory, which closed in 1999 and housed the Museum of Modern
Art while its Manhattan location was being renovated from 2002 to 2004.

The groundwater and soil beneath the building is tainted with the common
industrial pollutant and carcinogen trichloroethylene, known as TCE,
according to DEC regional citizen-participation specialist Arturo
Garcia-Costas.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.nypost.com/seven/12092007/news/regionalnews/state_fears_toxic_spread_in_queens_839371.htm

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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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