[CPEO-BIF] Dracut sports center (Massachusetts) "Parents want answers"

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Parents want answers on toxins at Dracut sports center

By John Collins
Lowell Sun/Valley Dispatch (MA)
October 10, 2012

DRACUT -- Seven Dracut parents whose children may have ingested toxic  
vapors during the years they played inside the former location of the  
Future Stars Sports Training Center told selectmen Tuesday they never  
saw any notices about ongoing hazardous-chemical mitigation efforts  
in the Navy Yard Mill complex, as the owner claimed he posted.

Responding to local parents' growing concerns and unanswered  
questions about the 100 Pleasant St. commercial-rental property,  
which the EPA closed in August due to unacceptable levels of  
trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (PCE) found on the  
site, Selectmen Chairman Cathy Richardson said the town will host a  
second informational session with EPA and Mass. DEP officials and  
pediatricians at a date to be determined.

"(The EPA representatives) have been very good about making  
themselves available, and have shown they're willing to work with the  
parents," said Richardson. "The parents definitely need to have  
another meeting to discuss this and ask questions. I would be  
concerned, too, if I was a parent who had a child that attended  
there, because there are chemicals involved, and it's scary when  
chemicals are involved."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thevalleydispatch.com/ci_21739036/parents-want-answers- 
toxins-at-dracut-sports-center

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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>
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