[CPEO-BIF] Toxic vapors in Westport, Baltimore, Maryland

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State tackling toxic vapor problems in Westport
MDE to add ventilation systems in three homes, treat ground water

By Timothy B. Wheeler
Baltimore Sun (MD)
July 29, 2009


Ventilation systems are being installed by the state in three homes in 
Baltimore's Westport neighborhood, according to state officials, after 
tests found toxic vapors seeping into the dwellings from long-abandoned 
industrial sites nearby that had been the focus of an emergency 
hazardous-waste cleanup decades ago.

In addition, said James Carroll of the Maryland Department of the 
Environment, efforts are under way to treat potentially cancer-causing 
solvents in the ground water beneath the former Chemical Metals 
Industries sites, which officials believe are the source of the toxic 
vapors getting into homes.

State and federal officials met Tuesday night with residents and 
community leaders of the southern Baltimore neighborhood to explain 
their response to the problem. Residents complained after the meeting 
that they had been unaware of the lingering contamination until it was 
reported last week in the Baltimore City Paper.

....

For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/bal-cleanup-0729,0,6681231.story

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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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