[CPEO-BIF] Vapor testing at Motorola 52nd St. neighborhood, Phoenix, Arizona

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Area near Superfund site tested for contaminants

by Sadie Jo Smokey
Arizona Republic
April. 24, 2011

Mary Moore stands on 50th Street filming a drill crew with her  
handheld camera.

Freescale Semiconductor contractors recently began drilling to sample  
soil gas at 26 locations in her Lindon Park neighborhood near 52nd  
Street and McDowell Road.

Soil gas refers to atmosphere present in the ground that could be  
tainted by chemicals and rise through the soil into homes and other  
buildings.

Freescale Semiconductor is updating its soil-gas data from 1995 to  
determine whether, and where, to sample indoor air. The goal is to  
determine if there's a health risk from exposure to low levels of the  
chemicals over a long period of time, said Janet Rosati, a U.S.  
Environmental Protection Agency project manager.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/ 
2011/04/24/20110424superfund-site-tainted.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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