[CPEO-BIF] Grand Prairie, Texas vapor testing

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Air in Grand Prairie neighborhood to be tested for contaminant TCE


By JON NIELSEN
The Dallas Morning News
May 18, 2008

Environmental Protection Agency representatives will take air samples 
this week in a Grand Prairie neighborhood sitting above groundwater 
contaminated with a noxious liquid.

The agency will study the potential vapor intrusion into homes of 
trichloroethylene, or TCE, a carcinogenic liquid used to clean grease 
off metal. The homes are near the former Delfasco Forge site at 114 N.E. 
28th St.

"We want to make sure it's not coming up through the soil and getting 
into living spaces," said Rick Ehrhart, an EPA corrective action 
coordinator.

EPA officials said there wasn't an immediate need to test the site, but 
they wanted to gather more data.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-delfasco_18met.ART0.West.Edition1.4610010.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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