[CPEO-BIF] Vapor intrusion at Facet Enteriprises site, Elmira Heights, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

TCE tests sought in Elmira Heights

EPA targets cancer-causing chemical

By Jason Whong
Elmira Star-Gazette (NY)
February 17, 2010

ELMIRA HEIGHTS -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants to help 
homeowners near a Superfund site vent potentially cancer-causing fumes 
from their basements for free.

But the agency needs homeowners' permission before it can do anything.

That was one of the main messages the EPA was trying to tell the roughly 
50 people who attended a meeting Wednesday at Thomas Edison High School.

The EPA began studying an area south of the Facet Enterprises Superfund 
site in 2007, investigating whether fumes from contaminated groundwater 
were coming through soil and into homes.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.stargazette.com/article/20100217/NEWS01/2170392/1113/TCE-tests-sought-in-Elmira-Heights

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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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