[CPEO-BIF] PCE mitigation in Le Mars, Iowa

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

PCE removal systems installed

By Bennet Goldstein
Le Mars Daily Sentinel (IA)
July 21, 2014

LE MARS -- Environmental Protection Agency contractors have installed  
vapor mitigation systems in 19 Le Mars properties to remove probable  
cancer-causing air contaminants.

The properties were identified by EPA staff as having unsafe levels  
of the chemicals tetrachloroethylene, PCE, or trichloroethylene, TCE,  
in the air.

The vapor mitigation systems suck contaminated air from under a  
building and vent it into the air above where it will dissipate.

The EPA previously detected an underground plume of PCE in downtown  
Le Mars, northwest of the Central Avenue and Plymouth Street  
intersection.

The plume runs northwest about four blocks, terminating halfway  
between the post office and Clark Elementary School blocks.

Installation of the air mitigation systems took about six weeks, said  
Susan Fisher, on-scene coordinator for the Le Mars PCE site.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.lemarssentinel.com/story/2102507.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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