[CPEO-BIF] Kipp Corporation vapor intrusion, Madison, Wisconsin

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Madison Neighborhood Concerned Over Possible Carcinogen In Soil
Kipp Corporation's Manufacturing Plant Blamed

Channel3000.com
May 5, 2011

MADISON, Wis. -- A group of Madison families on the near East Side is  
fearful about the foundations of their homes after a possible a  
carcinogen was found in the soil underneath.

...

"If it's floating underneath my house and coming up into my basement  
with my 8- and 4-year-old child, that's a concern," said Berge.

State officials informed Berge and his neighbors that a potential  
carcinogen is making its way from nearby Madison Kipp Corporation's  
manufacturing plant into the ground in the neighborhood.

"And the issue we're dealing with here is that the PCE, or the  
tetrachlorethylene, contamination in the soil is also in the soil  
vapor," said Mike Schmoller, DNR hydro-geologist. "It's moving from  
the Kipp property through the back yards of some of the homes on  
South Marquette Street."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.channel3000.com/news/27785290/detail.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, 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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