[CPEO-BIF] Watertown (New York) Center for Business and Industry

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

It's my understanding that OSHA air exposure standards apply only in 
workplaces where the chemicals of concern are currently in use. 
Otherwise, the standards for occupational exposure are simply a multiple 
of residential standards, to adjust for the length of the workweek.

Lenny



Board gets update on industrial center air
POLLUTION TESTS: Cancer-causing solvent found at level above DOH 
guideline, but far below OSHA limit

By NANCY MADSEN
WATERTOWN DAILY TIMES (NY)
JULY 29, 2009


The air in parts of the Watertown Center for Business and Industry has 
higher levels of the cancer-causing solvent trichloroethylene than 
recommended in the latest state Department of Health guidelines.

But the amounts are still well below the limit set by the federal 
Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

The report on testing for soil vapor intrusion was presented to the 
board of the Watertown Industrial Center Local Development Corp. at its 
meeting Tuesday morning.

The center is on the land formerly occupied by New York Air Brake, which 
freely dumped TCE and other toxic chemicals on its campus as recently as 
the 1950s, state officials have said. Beginning in the late 1980s, the 
state began testing water and soil samples on and near the site to 
determine what pollution still exists.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20090729/NEWS03/307299943


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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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