[CPEO-BIF] Maryland Square PCE, Las Vegas, Nevada

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Judge orders cleanup of business pollution that spread to homes

By Steve Green (contact)
Las Vegas Sun (NV)
January 2, 2011



A judge has ordered five parties to clean up air, soil and water 
pollution from a dry cleaning business -- pollution believed to have 
spread some 4,000 feet to homes east of the Boulevard Mall in Las Vegas.

U.S. District Judge Robert Jones issued an injunction requiring the 
cleanup last week in a 2008 lawsuit filed by homeowners against entities 
involved with the old Maryland Square Shopping Center and the Al 
Phillips the Cleaners dry cleaning business that operated there from 
1969 to 2000.

The homeowners complained in their suit that spills of the dry cleaning 
chemical tetrachloroethylene, also known as perchloroethylene (PCE), 
from Al Phillips had contaminated groundwater and that the contaminated 
water had migrated east under Maryland Parkway and the Boulevard Mall to 
soil under their homes.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2011/jan/02/judge-orders-cleanup-pollution-business-spread-hom/

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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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