[CPEO-BIF] PCE Vapors in the Heart of Harlem

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

The 2350 Fifth Avenue site, between 141st Street and 142nd Street in  
the heart of Harlem, was an ice cream factory, an industrial dry  
cleaners, a school, and then a storage facility. It made headlines in  
1997 when the school was evacuated due to PCE vapors inside. New York  
State's Proposed Remedial Action Plan ignores the potential for vapor  
intrusion at the densely populated Savoy Park apartment complex (just  
across 141st) proposes half a cleanup for the building, and downplays  
vapor intrusion in the Armory across 142nd.

To download Lenny Siegel's 5-page, 2.4 MB report, go to
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/2350Fifth.pdf

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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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