[CPEO-BIF] Vapor Testing in St. Louis Park area, Minneapolis, Minnesota

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

EPA bores in on source of mystery vapors in St. Louis Park

By JENNA ROSS
Minneapolis Star Tribune (MN)
April 30, 2008

A three-person team with a complicated bit of machinery on a pickup 
truck spent Wednesday drilling 40 Teflon-coated tubes 10 feet into the 
ground around a small area of St. Louis Park.

Left overnight, the 2-inch tubes collected air samples that the 
Environmental Protection Agency hopes could help identify the source of 
potentially hazardous vapors discovered beneath homes and businesses in 
the city.

...

Since February, the EPA has screened 251 St. Louis Park properties -- 
209 residential and 42 commercial -- and found high enough levels of 
vapors in the ground beneath 53 of them to warrant corrective action.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.startribune.com/local/west/18435409.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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