[CPEO-BIF] Vapor sampling at Motorola plume, Phoenix, Arizona

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA to test Phoenix homes near old Motorola site
Feds fear vapors could present health risks over long term

by Emily Gersema
The Arizona Republic
June 10, 2011

Contamination from a leak at a Motorola plant in the early 1980s has  
continued to affect an east Phoenix neighborhood, where scientists  
worry some residents may be breathing vapors from the spill's  
pollution as it rises through the soil.

Federal officials now say they want to test the inside of residents'  
homes to make sure there is not an ongoing health risk.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials told about 15  
residents at a community meeting Wednesday that their preliminary  
test results from some spots in the Lindon Park neighborhood, near  
48th Street and McDowell Road, show some soil samples had unsafe  
levels of two industrial cleaning chemicals.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/ 
2011/06/10/20110610phoenix-homes-epa-testing-motorola-site.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>
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