[CPEO-BIF] Who does the vapor testing in Pompton Lakes, New Jersey?

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Plume area residents in Pompton Lakes want their homes healthy


BY LESLIE SCOTT
Suburban Trends (NJ)
April 28, 2010

Some residents who live in the Plume are encountering one obstacle after 
another in getting mitigation of toxic vapors in their homes.

Several residents have commented time and again that they did not want 
DuPont or the state Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) 
installing vapor mitigation systems in their homes. Help came when the 
residents were allowed to pick from a list of DEP-approved contractors 
to perform the installation.

Plume area resident Darcy Kamp recently chose one of these contractors 
to get a vapor mitigation system installed in her home only to get her 
initial estimate rejected by the DEP.

The DEP did later approve the estimate, but Kamp still can't do a thing 
until a baseline test is completed. This test shows the amount and type 
of vapors that are seeping into Plume-area homes. Without it, there 
would be no sense in installing a system because it cannot be determined 
if it is working properly.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/92383704__Foot_dragging__slows_mitigation_efforts_in_Plume__.html?c=y&page=1

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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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