[CPEO-BIF] Goshen, Indiana vapor intrusion

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Tests show chemical plume in Goshen is of limited size
Degreaser filtered into the ground near a few houses owned by the city.

By Justin Leighty
Elkhart Truth (IN)
October 26, 2009

GOSHEN -- Testing showed groundwater contamination by a solvent turned 
out to be confined to just a few city-owned homes, according to a city 
official.

When the city did routine environmental tests on the old Hawks Furniture 
building, it found elevated levels of PCE, an industrial solvent used in 
dry cleaning or as a metal degreaser.

Officials tracked the plume of contamination back to the 200 block of 
South Third Street, said Mark Brinson, Goshen's community development 
director.

"We installed vapor-intrusion-mitigation systems, mechanical systems 
that we installed in three residential properties where the levels of 
PCE exceeded the long-term exposure levels. We just received reports 
back indicating that they'd had substantial impact in reducing those 
levels," Brinson said.



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For the entire article, see
http://www.etruth.com/Know/News/Story.aspx?id=496729

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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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