[CPEO-BIF] Solar-Powered Mitgation at Delfasco Forge site, Texas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Zap! U.S. EPA Uses Solar Power to Fight Indoor Air Pollution

by Tina Casey
CleanTechnica
September 14, 2009


Small solar panels provide enough electricity to power an exhaust system 
that almost eliminated TCE fumes in contaminated homes. The U.S. EPA has 
found that a simple, inexpensive rooftop solar panel can provide enough 
power to run a fan and remove toxic fumes from homes sitting on 
contaminated ground.  The EPA gave solar-powered venting a test run on 
several homes earlier this year, in a Superfund action aimed at 
tricholoroethene (TCE) vapors in a Grand Prairie, Texas neighborhood. 
The pollution had been traced to a site occupied by the now-bankrupt 
Delfasco Forge company.

Compared to conventional remediation that involves weeks, months or even 
years of work along with a potentially huge carbon footprint for 
transporting or capping soil, the solar-powered exhaust systems took 
mere hours to install and resulted in an immediate 95% reduction in TCE 
vapors within the homes.  The EPA plans to extend the program this fall 
to other homes affected by the Delfasco site.


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For the entire article, see
http://cleantechnica.com/2009/09/14/zap-us-epa-uses-solar-power-to-fight-indoor-air-pollution/

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