[CPEO-BIF] Mitec Telecom, Williston, Vermont

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

EPA revisits Williston's toxic underground 'plume'

By Joel Banner Baird
Burlington Free Press (VA)
May 7, 2010

WILLISTON - Twenty-five years after state investigators found evidence 
of a toxic waste "plume" 30 feet below parts of Williston, the U.S. 
Environmental Protection Agency has announced an aggressive, new 
investigation to track and - if possible - slow its spread.

...

Wednesday night and Thursday morning, Lumino outlined for town residents 
the plume's health risks (low), locations for new monitoring wells 
(throughout a commercial and residential area west of Taft Corners) and 
the likelihood of cooperation from the alleged polluter (again, low).

...

Mitec Telecom, the Lachine, Quebec, electronics firm charged with 
responsibility for the spills, this year agreed to contribute $120,000 
toward the recent EPA risk assessment, which is expected to cost several 
million dollars. An agreement Mitec reached with the state in 1986 
relieves the company of legal responsibility - unless more substantial 
evidence is produced.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20100507/NEWS02/100506029/EPA-revisits-Williston-s-toxic-underground-%E2%80%98plume

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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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