[CPEO-BIF] Former dry cleaners, Durham, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Cleanup continues on contaminated land across from Northgate Mall,  
but is it enough?

by Vernal Coleman
Independent Weekly (NC)
June 6, 2012

The former dry cleaners at 1103 W. Club Blvd. in Durham is gone,  
demolished after years of false starts in cleaning up the chemical  
contamination there. But that doesn't mean the fight over it has ended.

"I would like the remedial action plan to be as thorough as possible,  
as thorough as it possibly can be," says Laura Drey, a one-time  
resident of the neighborhood. Problem is, says Drey, it won't be.

The site is contaminated with tetrachloroethylene, or PERC, a cancer- 
causing chemical found in solvents commonly used in the dry cleaning  
industry. The chemical had soaked into the ground around and  
underneath the building, leaching into the soil. State environmental  
studies indicate that the contamination has spread 150 feet from the  
building.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/cleanup-continues-on-contaminated- 
land-across-from-northgate-mall-but-is-it-enough/Content?oid=3081221

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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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