2012 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 07:50:14 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] United Circuits site at Navy Yard Mill, Dracut, Massachusetts
 
EPA, Dracut leaders look to clear air on toxic risks at mill

By John Collins
Lowell Sun (MA)
October 4, 2012

DRACUT -- Unacceptable levels of soil- and airborne toxic chemicals detected earlier this year at the former location of Future Stars Sports Training Center and NexDine catering will be the subject of an EPA public hearing tonight from 6 to 8 at Harmony Hall.

The informational session, which will have two doctors from the EPA's Environmental Pediatric Health Unit available to answer parents' questions, was scheduled at the request of Dracut selectmen after the board heard on Sept. 11 from EPA spokesman James Murphy about the hazardous chemicals, Trichloroethylene (TCE) and Tetrachloroethylene (PCE), which the agency found at the Navy Yard Mill buildings that housed the businesses at 100 Pleasant St.

Murphy reported the presence of TCE and PCE, chemicals often used in degreasing products, was traced to United Circuits, a former printed circuit-board manufacturer that operated on the site between 1980 and 2000.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lowellsun.com/todaysheadlines/ci_21696615/epa-dracut- leaders-look-clear-air-toxic-risks

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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