[CPEO-BIF] United Circuits site at Navy Yard Mill, Dracut, Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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.

...

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
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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