[CPEO-BIF] "EPA Begins Toxic Vapor Sampling In Riverside," Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA Begins Toxic Vapor Sampling In Riverside

By Lewis Wallace
WYSO Radio (Yellow Springs, OH)
December 18, 2013

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has started testing  
dozens of homes in the north Dayton suburb of Riverside for dangerous  
airborne pollution. Trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene  
(PCE), are toxic industrial degreasers that were used with little  
regulation until the 1970s, when people began to suspect links to  
cancer.

The Ohio EPA first noticed TCE and PCE in groundwater wells at  
Mullins Rubber factory just off Valley Pike in 2010, but because the  
groundwater was not connected to a drinking water supply, the agency  
didn’t immediately initiate any action.

Now the agency believes the chemicals could be rising up into nearby  
homes in vapor form, and the federal EPA has taken over the  
investigation.


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For the entire story, see
http://wyso.org/post/epa-begins-toxic-vapor-sampling-riverside

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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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