[CPEO-BIF] Vapor intrusion from Behr Dayton Thermal Products plant, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Efforts aim to rid Dayton homes of hazardous vapors
Basement systems installed to clear air of degreaser, with some success.

By Steve Bennish
Dayton Daily News (OH)
February 22, 2008

DAYTON - Efforts to make homes safe from contaminated groundwater fumes 
near the Behr Dayton Thermal Products plant, 1600 Webster St., have run 
into problems at as many as 10 homes.

And the effort to clean indoor air contamination at a nearby school is 
ongoing, authorities have said.

The problems are caused by how some of the older homes were constructed. 
The homes have been equipped, under U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 
supervision, with air evacuation systems that are used to ventilate 
fumes caused by trichloroethylene or TCE, a degreaser.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/02/21/ddn022208behr.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>
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