[CPEO-BIF] Coyne Textiles plume, Huntington, West Virginia

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxins TCE, PCE Migrating North Toward Ohio River at Westmoreland

BY TONY RUTHERFORD
HUNTINGTON NEWS (WV)
May 22, 2011

HUNTINGTON, WV (HNN) – Research of archived Region III Environmental  
Protection documents reveal that the site at 1111 Vernon Street  
(Coyne Textiles) has a problematic history of chemical spills. The  
Westmorland Neighborhood Association learned at a meeting last week  
that both PCE and TCE had been found in samples taken from wells  
surrounding the former Coyne structure.

TCE had been used in the dry cleaning process. At one time, women  
breathed it as an anesthetic prior to child birth, according to an on- 
line dictionary.

However, TCE has carcinogenic properties, although experts differ on  
the risks of liver and kidney cancer in humans.

Since the EPA reopened its archived finding on the 1111 Vernon Street  
site, they have conducted both in-house and out-sourced samples,  
studies and analysis of the movement of the carcinogenic waste.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.huntingtonnews.net/4557

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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