[CPEO-BIF] Behr Site, Dayton, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Contaminated Behr site now on EPA cleanup priority list
Breadth of project still uncertain, but a school has been closed and 
homes are being vented

By Steve Bennish
Dayton Daily News (OH)
March 7, 2008

DAYTON - Groundwater contamination in the vicinity of the Behr Dayton 
Thermal Products Plant is severe enough to merit putting it on the 
National Priority List of the U.S. EPA's Superfund program, federal 
officials said.

...

So far, the contamination has led to the closure of McGuffey Elementary 
School, 1032 Webster St., and the installation of air evacuation systems 
in 100 homes affected by indoor air fumes from the groundwater, which is 
tainted with the degreaser trichloroethylene — TCE — and other organic 
chemicals.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2008/03/06/ddn030708epa.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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