[CPEO-BIF] "Former Xerox site to undergo cleanup, " Irvine, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former Xerox site to undergo cleanup

by Kimberley Pierceall
TMC News/Orange County Register (CA)
June 11, 2014

The Department of Toxic Substances Control plans to scoop out  
contaminated soil and monitor groundwater at the site near the corner  
of Jamboree Road and Dupont Drive and make sure that any eventual  
development on the land is restricted to commercial or industrial  
uses, at least on the ground floor. Apartments surround the area.

The site has been cleaned up and investigated before, as early as the  
mid-1980s, but an earlier attempt to suck out chemical vapors from  
the hard, clay soil was stopped.

Officials with the state agency likened it to a house vacuum that  
doesn't have enough suction to clean up a thick rug.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2014/06/11/7871088.htm

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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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