2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

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, 2009


The 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.

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For the entire article, see
http://wednesdayjournalonline.com/Main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=15941

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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