[CPEO-BIF] CUTCO Corp. TCE, Olean, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contamination in East Olean poses no imminent health threat, EPA says

By Christopher Michel
Olean Times Herald (NY)
July 25, 2014

OLEAN - The discovery of a small area of contamination in the Olean  
Well Field Superfund Site in East Olean is not cause for panic,  
officials with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) say.

"There is no imminent threat to public health and safety," Michael  
Basile, an EPA public affairs specialist, told the Times Herald. "We  
have been actively involved in the Olean well fields for years, and  
this is one of the last areas of (contamination)."

The EPA announced Wednesday that a small pocket of contamination was  
found underneath an Alcas - or CUTCO Corp. - manufacturing facility  
on the company's campus on East State Street. According to a copy of  
the site report obtained by the Times Herald, environmental  
authorities found traces of trichloroethylene (TCE), an industrial  
degreaser known to cause cancer after prolonged exposure, in soil and  
groundwater samples taken 9 feet below the foundation of the  
building. Tests of the samples found the TCE concentrations are the  
highest presence of the substance ever recorded at the site.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.oleantimesherald.com/news/here_and_now/ 
article_828a9156-1407-11e4-a1cb-001a4bcf887a.html

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Lenny Siegel
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