[CPEO-BIF] Perkasie, Pennsylvania groundwater

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Families have lived for decades with TCE

By ED KRACZ
The Intelligencer (PA)
May 5, 2008

The neighborhood looks harmless enough, with well-maintained homes and 
dozens of tall, sturdy trees that have grown up right along with it.

The danger here lies in what cannot be seen. It’s about 200 feet 
underground and has festered there since the time this cluster of homes 
in Perkasie, along Cedar View Avenue and Evergreen Lane, a cul-de-sac 
that spills into Cedar View, was constructed in the mid-1970s.

Even if it were above ground, out in the open, the danger would be 
difficult to recognize. It would look like water, colorless, but with a 
slightly sweet odor and a sweet, but burning taste. A potentially deadly 
taste, because drinking it or even breathing it could cause nervous 
system effects, liver and lung damage, abnormal heartbeat, coma and 
possibly death.

It is trichloroethylene, or TCE.

...

Katz Builders has a stake as well, since it wants to build nine homes on 
nearby Fifth Street and needs a public water line to make it happen.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/113-05042008-1529225.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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