[CPEO-BIF] Home testing in West Endicott (NY

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Dozens sign up to have homes tested for TCE

By John Hill
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
January 23, 2008

ENDICOTT -- Just as hundreds of village residents before them, dozens of 
West Endicott residents signed up Wednesday night to have their homes 
tested for the industrial solvent trichloroethylene.

The state Department of Environmental Conservation will test the homes, 
generally in the area south of June Street and north of Main Street, in 
February and March for the industrial solvent that has shown up in tests 
of groundwater underneath the neighborhood.

The residents should know the results of the tests a few months after 
that, said Bill Wertz of the DEC.

In a meeting attended by about 100 people at Union-Endicott High School, 
officials from the DEC and the Department of Health briefed residents on 
the process and solicited volunteers to have their homes tested.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080123/NEWS01/801230372

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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>
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