[CPEO-BIF] COSCO site, Spring Valley, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEC to test Spring Valley homes, businesses for toxic chemicals

Laura Incalcaterra
Lower Hudson Journal News (NY)
November 10, 2008

SPRING VALLEY - Chemical contamination that dates back nearly three 
decades has reared its head again, showing up in soil gas and prompting 
the state to conduct new testing.

The Department of Environmental Conservation is preparing to sample soil 
gas in two businesses and six homes near the former COSCO manufacturing 
facility at 15 West St.

The action comes after the agency revisited the COSCO site and found 
that the soil gas contained several contaminants, including 
trichloroethene, or TCE, and tetrachloroethene, or PCE.

The TCE was used by COSCO, which shut in the late 1990s, as a vapor 
degreaser and discharged in rinse water into a stream, the DEC said.

...

For the entire article, see
http://lohud.com/article/20081110/NEWS03/811100358/-1/newsfront

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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
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