From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:23:14 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Testing St. Luke's School for vapor intrusion, River Forest, Illinois |
EPA to test St. Luke's for contamination U.S. EPA looking at Lake and Lathrop cleanup By BILL DWYER Journal of Oak Park and River Forest (IL) November 10, 2009The River Forest village board slogged through a series of decisions Monday night, related to extending the life of the Lake Street tax increment financing district. The meeting also featured the first public discussion of environmental contamination of several properties near Lake and Lathrop. According to experts, that cleanup may well require the demolition of the two properties that extend from 7601 Lake to 7621 Lake. An environmental remediation expert and environmental attorney retained by the village of River Forest also told the village board Monday that property owner Edward Ditchfield is working with the Illinois EPA and an environmental trust fund to clean up contamination at the River Forest Cleaners site and adjacent properties. ...Meanwhile, officials from the U.S. EPA confirmed they conducted a preliminary site visit to St. Luke's School, across Lake Street from the Ditchfield property, and will be conducting testing soon for what's called vapor intrusion - the entry of chemical vapors through the floor. That development may place increased pressure on Ditchfield to expand the scope of his testing. ... For the entire article, see http://wednesdayjournalonline.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=15941 -- 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> http://www.cpeo.org _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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