[CPEO-BIF] "State health officials reopen Huron [IBM Endicott, New York] TCE investigation"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State health officials reopen Huron TCE investigation
New studies prompt reevaluation of exposure guidelines

by Tom Wilber
Binghamton press & Sun-Bulletin
June 1, 2014

ENDICOTT - Exposure to TCE pollution deemed unsafe for village  
residents is acceptable for workers at the Huron Campus, state health  
officials determined in 2005.

That assessment may change this year, however, as the state  
Department of Health takes into account new evidence that TCE is more  
toxic than previously thought.

Eliminating trichloroethylene (TCE) vapors has posed mechanical and  
engineering challenges at the manufacturing buildings, which sit over  
the highest concentrations of a chemical plume spreading from the  
former IBM campus through 300 acres of the village. Pollution forms  
gases that enter buildings and enclosed spaces - a process known as  
vapor intrusion. The type of systems used to divert chemicals from  
under smaller

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/article/20140601/news01/306010032/state- 
health-officials-reopen-huron-tce-investigation?nclick_check=1

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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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