[CPEO-BIF] "EPA reports slow progress on Le Roy [New York] spill site"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA reports slow progress on Le Roy spill site

by Steve Orr
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (NY)
August 21, 2012

Since public attention was refocused early this year on a 1970 train  
derailment that contaminated a large tract south of Rochester with  
toxic solvents, federal officials have made slow progress toward an  
eventual cleanup.

Groundwater underlying about 4 1/2 square miles in Le Roy, Genesee  
County, Caledonia, Livingston County and Wheatland, Monroe County is  
tainted with an estimated 35,000 gallons of trichloroethene, or TCE.  
Steps have been taken to protect residents from exposure to the TCE,  
but an underground plume of the solvent remains in place.

A fresh round of environmental studies has been conducted in recent  
years, and a new remedial investigation report that will highlight  
the result of those studies was delivered Tuesday to the U.S.  
Environmental Protection Agency.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20120821/NEWS01/308210028/ 
Erin-Brockovich-LeRoy-TCE-spill

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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
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