[CPEO-BIF] Town & Country Cleaners, Brighton, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brighton dry cleaner classified as Superfund site

by Justin Murphy
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (NY)
November 15, 2012

BRIGHTON - The town's chemical corridor on Monroe Avenue got a little  
dirtier last week when the state Department of Environmental  
Conservation classified Town & Country Cleaners as a Class Two  
Superfund site.

It is one of three sites on Monroe Avenue where dry cleaning solvents  
were improperly disposed of. In a news release dated Nov. 8 and  
distributed Tuesday, the DEC determined the Town & Country site at  
2308 Monroe Ave. "presents a significant threat to public health and/ 
or the environment."

The contaminants at issue are tetrachloroethene, or PCE, and  
trichloroethene, or TCE. Both are dry cleaning chemicals that are  
toxic to humans, particularly in high concentrations.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20121115/NEWS01/311150043/ 
brighton-dry-cleaner-superfund-contamination

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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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