[CPEO-BIF] Mountain View (CA) "Apartment owner changes stance on toxics testing"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

As the article reports, I questioned EPA's position that it can't  
sample indoor air at the request of tenants (if landlords don't also  
give permission). - LS


TCE: Apartment owner changes stance on toxics testing

by Daniel DeBolt

Mountain View Voice (CA)
March 7, 2013

An apartment building owner has finally allowed the Environmental  
Protection Agency to see if unsafe levels of toxic vapors are being  
trapped inside a 64-unit apartment complex.



Jim Ebert, a representative of the owners of the complex at 600  
Whisman Road, Evandale Investors LLC, reversed course on Wednesday  
and said that indoor air testing would be allowed on the site, as  
well as groundwater testing. The complex may be affected by TCE fumes  
from Superfund sites on North Whisman Road.



The situation caught the attention of the neighborhood when it was  
first reported in the Voice on Feb. 15 that the EPA said it had been  
refused permission to do air sampling inside the apartments.



EPA officials said they had not been in direct contact with the  
owner, but received a note from the complex's property management  
firm Prometheus Real Estate Group saying that the owners "weren't  
going to be participating in the testing," said David Yogi, EPA  
Region 9 spokesman. "It was back in January. They didn't give any  
reasons why."


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For the entire article, see
http://mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=6712

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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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