[CPEO-BIF] Ohio Department of Transportation site (Newark, Ohio) vapor intrusion investigation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

ODOT's costly clean-up in Newark to displace families
State agency attempting to buy 8 properties; has spent millions at site

by Jessie Balmert
Newark Advocate (OH)
September 13, 2012

NEWARK - Becky and Andrew Snedeker spent their first year of marriage  
living with her parents while searching for their dream home. They  
found it on James Street in Newark, but now the Ohio Department of  
Transportation wants to buy and raze it to clean up a known  
carcinogen in groundwater feet below their property.

The clean-up effort, which has lasted more than two decades, already  
has cost taxpayers an estimated $12 million. On Wednesday, several  
property owners learned it would cost them their homes.

"These are innocent people. They haven't done anything wrong. They  
lived next to our site," said Joe Rutherford, deputy director of ODOT  
District 5.



For 47 years, employees at the Ohio Department of Transportation  
site, 115 1/2 Maholm St., Newark, used trichloroethylene (TCE), a  
degreaser, solvent and now-known carcinogen, on machinery used to  
test asphalt for roads, Rutherford said.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20120913/NEWS01/120913013/ODOT- 
s-costly-contamination-clean-up-Newark-displace-families

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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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