[CPEO-BIF] "EPA to step up outreach on TCE danger" on Evandale Ave., Mountain View, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA to step up outreach on TCE danger

By Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice (CA)
February 21, 2013

After the Voice discovered a number of residents on Evandale Avenue  
had no knowledge of newly discovered toxins creeping under their  
street and possibly into their homes, the Environmental Protection  
Agency says it plans to do more outreach in the area.

The news last week that part of a large groundwater plume  
contaminated with TCE (trichloroethylene) had found its way down  
Evandale Avenue was shocking to North Whisman Road resident Jane  
Horton, whose home was found with unsafe levels of TCE vapors in 2003.

"My reaction was, you've got to be kidding me," Horton said. "I have  
attended countless meetings where we've always been assured the plume  
is contained" and doesn't go much further west than Whisman Road.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=6660&e=y

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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