[CPEO-BIF] "EPA to test homes for toxics on Leong Drive, " Mountain View, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA to test homes for toxics on Leong Drive
Agency reverses earlier statements about lack of funding for TCE air  
testing

Daniel DeBolt
Mountain View Voice (CA)
March 22, 2013

EPA officials announced on Friday that their agency has allocated  
$100,000 to test and remediate homes on Leong Drive that could have  
unsafe levels of toxic vapors trapped inside.

Groundwater sampling in 2011 found trichloroethylene (TCE)  
contamination on the east side of Leong Drive under the site of a gas  
station, hotel and now-vacant Denny's restaurant. How it got there is  
still under investigation.

The announcement comes after attendees of a March 3 Wagon Wheel  
neighborhood meeting were shocked to learn of the toxics on Leong  
Drive -- when residents already were reeling from news about toxic  
vapors found in homes on Evandale Avenue. Environmental Protection  
Agency officials had said that there was no funding to do indoor air  
testing of homes in the area as a search for the polluters  
responsible was underway.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.mv-voice.com/news/show_story.php?id=6765&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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