[CPEO-BIF] "Leaky sewer lines delivered TCE to homes" in Mountain View, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Leaky sewer lines delivered TCE to homes
Trail of contamination "almost a smoking gun"

by Daniel DeBolt	 
Mountain View Voice (CA)
November 21, 2013

  				
A report commissioned by the city is boosting suspicions that early semiconductor companies spread pollution throughout northeastern Mountain View by dumping toxics into leaky sewer lines.

A sewer line that runs through the city's Moffett Gateway site leaked the Trichloroethylene (TCE) pollution found in the soil and groundwater there, the report concludes, and points to dumping into leaky sewer lines for causing other "hot spots" of TCE contamination in soil and groundwater on Leong Drive and Evandale Avenue.

"It's the most detailed information I've seen thus far" about the hypothesis that sewer lines created the mysterious hot spots located away from a 1.5-mile long regional plume left behind by early silicon chip makers along the east side of Whisman Road, said Lenny Siegel, director of the Center for Public Environmental Oversight.

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For the entire article, see
http://mv-voice.com/news/2013/11/21/leaky-sewer-lines-delivered-tce-to-homes

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
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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