[CPEO-BIF] "Vapor intrusion's silent threat," New Jersey

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Vapor intrusion's silent threat

BY SCOTT FALLON
The Record (NJ)
October 17, 2010



In Edgewater, air is being monitored at an office building and day care 
center sitting over contaminated groundwater that has migrated from a 
Superfund site next door.

In Fair Lawn, investigators are determining whether toxic volatile 
organic compounds have made their way into homes and businesses near a 
27-year-old Superfund site.

And in an entire neighborhood of Pompton Lakes, residents are being 
urged to have air venting systems installed in their basements to 
protect against cancer-causing fumes.

This environmental menace is called vapor intrusion, a toxic stew of 
gases that rises from groundwater into houses and contaminates indoor 
air. Scientists have only recently begun to understand its dangers.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/state/105124189_Vapor_intrusion_s_silent_threat.html


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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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