[CPEO-BIF] Meeting about TCE in Mountain View, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Testing and treating to reduce city's toxic vapor problem

Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice (CA)
March 15, 2013

Like toxic vapors coming out of the ground, health concerns about TCE  
are lingering in northeastern Mountain View.

In a meeting in City Hall for the MEW Superfund site's Community  
Advisory Board Tuesday evening, Allison Nelson of Sherland Avenue  
said she had been speaking with her neighbors and noticed that many  
of them suffer from similar health problems, including cerebral palsy  
and migraine headaches. She said many of her neighbors eat vegetables  
grown in their yards, which she is concerned might contaminated by  
trichloroethylene (TCE).

Nelson lives not far from the former location of numerous silicon  
chip manufacturing facilities that leaked the solvent from large  
underground tanks in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, creating the largest  
toxic site in Silicon Valley. Roughly bordered by Middlefield Road,  
Ellis Street and Whisman Road, it's known as the "MEW."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=6738&e=y


See also the editorial at
http://www.mv-voice.com/story.php?story_id=8521

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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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