[CPEO-BIF] Meeting about TCE near General Mills plant, SE Minneapolis, Minnesota

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Residents voice anxieties at SE Minneapolis meeting on TCE pollution
State officials explained plans to test for harmful vapors from the  
solvent TCE

by JEREMY OLSON
Minneapolis Star Tribune (MN)
November 12, 2013

The anxiety of living in a neighborhood where a toxic chemical lurks  
underground showed Tuesday, as current and former residents of the  
Como neighborhood in southeast Minneapolis reacted to the rediscovery  
of trichloroethylene, or TCE, in their soil.

"This may be the answer to the mystery, to everything that has been  
going on," said Patty Manion, who grew up in the neighborhood and  
lost a mother to multiple sclerosis, a sister to liver cancer, and a  
brother just last month to multiple myeloma.

Manion attended the first of two community forums led by Minnesota  
health and pollution officialsTuesday to discuss efforts to detect  
and remove TCE, a degreasing solvent that had been dumped from 1947  
to 1962 in a pit behind a now-defunct General Mills plant.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/231634071.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
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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