[CPEO-BIF] Vapors near former Chamberlain Manufacturing plant, Waterloo, Iowa

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA will test Chamberlain neighborhood for toxic vapor

By TIM JAMISON
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier
December 15, 2010

WATERLOO --- Federal environmental officials want to expand testing for 
contamination under homes and in basements around the former Chamberlain 
Manufacturing plant.

Representatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency held a 
meeting in Waterloo Tuesday to explain plans to test for cancer-causing 
vapors under 72 houses near the former manufacturing plant at East 
Fourth and Arlington streets. Those results could lead to the 
installation of systems to vent the vapors out of the buildings.

"What we're proposing to do is very significant and has proven to work 
very well at other sites," said Bruce Morrison, of the EPA's Region 7 
office in Kansas City, Kan. "This work is voluntary. It's not forced on 
anybody."

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For the entire article, see
http://wcfcourier.com/news/local/article_3c1be2e9-3ee8-50c2-9fa5-21596b11dc2d.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>
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