[CPEO-BIF] CTS Printex site, Mountain View, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New cleanup efforts for Superfund site
Microbe treatment is fastest route for Plymouth Avenue homes, EPA says

by Daniel DeBolt

Mountain View Voice (CA)
June 14, 2011

Support from Mountain View residents may be all that is required to  
quickly clean up a small toxic groundwater plume at the north end of  
Sierra Vista Avenue that was left behind by an early Silicon Valley  
circuit board manufacturer.

On June 15 a meeting is set for residents to discuss several options  
for cleaning up the trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination left behind  
by CTS Printex, which is said to have dumped the solvent into the  
groundwater in the 1970s and early 1980s. The contamination has  
largely moved north from the company's former location, now occupied  
by three-story town homes at the east end of Plymouth Avenue. But the  
contamination still presents the potential of toxic vapors being  
released into the air and into buildings, and has made the  
groundwater undrinkable.

...

For the entire article, see
http://mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=4376

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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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