[CPEO-BIF] Omega Chemical, Whittier, California vapor intrusion

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

News Release
U.S. EPA
November 17, 2009

U.S. EPA signs agreement addressing indoor air contamination at Omega 
Chemical Corporation Superfund Site in Whittier


LOS ANGELES - Under the terms of a recently signed agreement between the 
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and 75 members of the Omega 
Chemical Site PRP Organized Group (OPOG), the OPOG parties will 
undertake a number of actions to address indoor air contamination at 
commercial buildings located near the Omega Chemical Corporation 
Superfund site in Whittier, Calif.

The agency believes that the indoor air contamination is caused by 
contaminated soil and groundwater at the Omega Chemical Corporation 
Superfund site. Volatile contaminants from the Omega site, such as 
tetrachloroethene (PCE), and trichloroethene (TCE), are able to migrate 
through soil and into buildings through a process known as vapor 
intrusion. Contamination levels in two buildings adjacent to the site 
have been documented at levels above the EPA's health-protective range 
for long-term industrial/commercial exposure to PCE and TCE.

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For the entire release, see
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/a6c06524814d6db385257671006805bd?OpenDocument

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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