[CPEO-BIF] Hidden Valley Electronics site, Vestal, NY

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Another pollution vent added at Vestal site

By Tom Wilber
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
July 6, 2008

VESTAL -- Work to safeguard against TCE pollution at a Vestal plaza will 
continue this summer as workers add a second system to pull vapors from 
under the foundation.

The work at 1808 Vestal Parkway East is part of a larger plan to clean 
the site, once occupied by Hidden Valley Electronics, and a neighborhood 
to the north.

Trichloroethylene pollution runs from under the plaza -- now occupied by 
American Family Fitness and several other businesses -- under Vestal 
Parkway and a nearby rail trail, into the Twin Orchards neighborhood.

After testing more than 60 homes and three businesses in the area, 
officials installed systems to remove high TCE concentrations below 13 
of the homes and the fitness center.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080706/NEWS01/807060353

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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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