[CPEO-BIF] Hazel Dell, Washington ballfields

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Superfund success means its OK to play over polluted water, feds say

Cleanup will continue below planned ball fields

By Erik Robinson
Columbian (WA)
June 20, 2010


Federal environmental regulators are keeping a close eye on plans to 
develop a new complex of sports fields in Hazel Dell.

However, officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said 
last week that they don't expect the ballfield development to affect a 
contaminated plume of groundwater deep below the surface. Health risks 
would be negligible for players and spectators who gather on the future 
ballfields along 78th Street, they said.

"The plume is 50 to 90 feet below the ground surface," said Judy Smith, 
a community outreach coordinator with the EPA in Portland. "The vapors 
were monitored in the area in the mid-'90s, when the concentrations were 
at their highest. Vapor intrusion wasn't a problem then."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/jun/20/superfund-success-ok-to-play-over-polluted-water-f/

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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
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