[CPEO-BIF] "Old GM" vapor intrusion, Moraine, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Moraine residents press EPA over potentially carcinogenic vapors
Potentially carcinogenic plume from old GM plant prompts concern.

By Lawrence Budd
Dayton Daily News (OH)
August 30, 2011

MORAINE - Residents of a neighborhood contaminated with potentially  
carcinogenic vapors migrated from a former General Motors plant  
pressed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday for answers  
about the health risks and other problems.

"We have waited this long breathing in these chemicals. Nothing has  
been done," resident Shari Steele said during a meeting Tuesday at  
the Moraine Civic Center.
In May, EPA met with residents for the first time about action  
planned to vent the vapors from homes in the Riverview neighborhood,  
across Dryden Road from the GM Moraine Assembly plant.

Vapors from de-greasing solvents migrated southwest from a former oil  
house building at the plant GM shut down in December 2008. The  
contaminated plume is just west of Springboro Pike and east of Dryden  
Road on the former plant site.

Tests have already detected the vapors in 26 homes in Riverview. Only  
38 of 60 residents have consented to testing.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/dayton-news/moraine-residents- 
press-epa-over-potentially-carcinogenic-vapors-1242836.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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