[CPEO-BIF] Vapor testing, Raymark site, Hatboro, Pennsylvania

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Tests could define pollution potential

By RICH PIETRAS
The Intelligencer (PA)
November 19, 2008

The EPA will be conducting tests near the Raymark Superfund site in 
Hatboro to determine if residents could be at risk from pollutants, in 
the form of vapors, seeping into their basements.

While the 7-acre site on Jacksonville Road was identified as a source of 
TCE contamination of groundwater in 1979, the Environmental Protection 
Agency now makes checking for such “vapor intrusion” part of its routine 
five-year review. Trichloroethylene, or TCE, is a metal cleaner and in 
high levels may cause liver, kidney or lung cancer if inhaled or ingested.

But until more tests are done, the risk to residents, particularly those 
to the west and southwest of the site, is unknown.

In the meantime, EPA will perform testing on monitoring wells west of 
the railroad tracks. If the test results indicate a potential health 
risk, the EPA will contact residents to ask permission to perform air 
testing in their homes. This testing will be conducted at no cost to the 
property owner.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/113-11192008-1624163.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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