[CPEO-BIF] South Hill wants faster cleanup (Ithaca, NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

South Hill association pushes for quicker pollution cleanup
City not doing enough to help, president says

By Krisy Gashler
Ithaca Journal (NY)
August 23, 2009


ITHACA -- The president of the South Hill Civic Association is pleading 
with city leaders for more help in the fight to rid South Hill of toxic 
pollution.

Association president John Graves said he lives half-a-block from the 
Columbia Street manhole that registered highest for toxic vapors such as 
trichloroethylene (TCE) in 2007 testing by Emerson Power Transmission. 
Yet almost two years later, Graves said that neither he nor any of his 
neighbors have been contacted to have their houses tested for potential 
contamination.

"There is no sense of urgency," Graves wrote in a statement to Common 
Council on behalf of the civic association. "Every time Department of 
Environmental Conservation and the Department of Health set goals to 
start another phase on South Hill, it takes a year longer than 
projected. One year to the DEC and DOH turns out to be two years for 
South Hill residents."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20090823/NEWS01/908230347/1126/South+Hill+association+pushes+for+quicker+pollution+cleanup

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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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