[CPEO-BIF] Mountain View vapor intrusion plan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New EPA plan protects neighborhood from toxic fumes

by Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice (CA)
September 3, 2010

Mountain View resident Jane Horton said her fight to have her home 
tested for toxic groundwater vapors would have been unnecessary if a 
recent update to an important Environmental Protection Agency plan had 
been in place.

For years, Horton was told that the city's toxic TCE groundwater plume 
stopped in the middle of Whisman Road, 20 feet from her house.

After much public controversy, the computer chip makers who leaked the 
industrial solvent into the area's groundwater table eventually tested 
her home in 2003. Unacceptable levels of TCE vapors had made their way 
through the soil and into her home, and the polluters paid for a system 
to ventilate her cellar.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=3310

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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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