[CPEO-BIF] "Toxic fumes confirmed at Evansville [Indiana] daycare"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic fumes confirmed at Evansville daycare

By Brandon Bartlett
WFIE TV-14 News (Evansville, IN)
February 23, 2011

EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) - New information on the possible source of  
toxic fumes that forced an Evansville daycare operation to shut down.

The IDEM says those vapors are coming from the day care facility. And  
the source must be found before this building can ever reopen.

"The levels were of a concern," Dwayne Caldwell of the Vanderburgh  
County Health Dept. says.

Even though no child has gotten sick from the toxic fumes the right  
decision was made to close this facility down and stop the risk of  
exposure to the chemical TCE.

"Anytime you're dealing with children you want to be careful,"  
Caldwell says.

Originally environmental experts thought the vapors were coming from  
the old Swanson Nunn building across the street. But another round of  
tests indicted what many parents feared, the source of the vapors lie  
here somewhere inside the Carver Day Care Center

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.14wfie.com/story/14089164/toxic-fumes-confirmed-at- 
evansville-daycare

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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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