[CPEO-BIF] Chamberlain manufacturing vapor intrusion, Waterloo, Iowa

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA: Chamberlain manufacturing site can't be cleaned up

By JOHN MOLSEED
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier (IA)
November 13, 2009

WATERLOO - Underground soil contamination from the former Chamberlain 
Manufacturing Corp. plant is too deep and too old to clean up, 
environmental officials say.

The contamination has spread under surrounding homes, according to 
samples taken by officials from the Environmental Protection Agency.

Representatives from the EPA joined city officials for a public meeting 
Thursday night to discuss the contamination. Stephanie Doolan, of the 
EPA Region 7 office in Kansas City, Kan., said officials from the agency 
are still testing to see how many homes are affected and whether vapor 
contamination has seeped into homes near the Chamberlain site at 550 
Esther St.

Previous testing revealed concentrations of heavy metals and other 
hazardous compounds, including the carcinogen trichloroethylene, known 
as TCE, on the site. TCE vapor can seep from the contaminated 
groundwater into homes, Doolan said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wcfcourier.com/news/local/article_91ec1a3c-d070-11de-a551-001cc4c002e0.html

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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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