[CPEO-BIF] Glen Park vapor intrusion, Somerville, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

No easy way to decontaminate
68 Glen Park homes in peril

By Danielle Dreilinger
Boston Globe (MA)
July 20, 2008

To protect yourself against pollution, Cambridge songwriter Tom Lehrer 
once recommended, "don't drink the water and don't breathe the air."

The latter may be necessary for some Glen Park residents, who have 
started protecting their houses from a plume formed by the toxic 
chemical percholoethylene six years after inspectors discovered the problem.

A report filed with the state Department of Environmental Protection 
last week describes the full extent of the contaminated site, which the 
department considers one of the most serious in its purview.

About 40 people met on July 10 in the Capuano School - which itself has 
systems protecting six classrooms from the chemical - for a briefing by 
Tufts University professor Anne Marie Desmarais.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/07/20/no_easy_way_to_decontaminate/

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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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