[CPEO-BIF] Boulder, Colorado Manufactured Gas Plant site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Experts: Contamination from teahouse site likely spread

By Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer
Boulder Weekly (CO)
June 6, 2013

Two experts on manufactured gas plants like the one that operated at  
the Dushanbe Teahouse site in Boulder for half a century say it’s  
likely that contamination found at a nearby dry cleaner site came  
from the plant.
And it seems there are some features of the historic gas plant that  
have been unaccounted for. One expert has suggested that the teahouse  
be moved, at least temporarily, so that the site can be properly  
cleaned up.

The City of Boulder, which now owns the property, and its consultants  
have argued that a toxin called naphthalene found about a block  
southeast did not come from the gas plant, partly because groundwater  
at the site flows northeast.

But scientists say naphthalene in groundwater is considered a  
“fingerprint” for gas plants.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.boulderweekly.com/article-11229-experts-contaminatio.html

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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
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