[CPEO-BIF] Cadet plume, Vancouver, Washington

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Washington state seeks input on Cadet plume clean-up

Allan Brettman
The Oregonian
January 15, 2008

The state Department of Ecology has approved the Port of Vancouver's 
plan for completing cleanup of a toxic plume laying beneath a west 
Vancouver neighborhood.

...

Cadet Manufacturing, an electric-heater maker, once used a solvent 
called trichloroethylene, or TCE, in its production process. The 
company's headquarters near the Port is less than a half-mile north of 
the Columbia River and adjacent to Swan Manufacturing, a defunct company 
that once used TCE and which also has remnants of a toxic plume underground.

The plume is now under part of the Fruit Valley neighborhood where it 
poses a small risk to indoor air in some of the homes, the state 
Department of Health has said. The community's drinking water comes from 
a different source.

...

For the entire article, see
http://blog.oregonlive.com/breakingnews/2008/01/washington_state_seeks_input_o.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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