[CPEO-BIF] Olean, New York groundwater

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA unveils options for water wells

By Kelsey M. Boudin
Olean Times Herald (NY)
August 6, 2014

OLEAN - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) introduced a series  
of options Tuesday to rid the Olean Well Field Superfund Site around  
Alcas Cutlery Corp. of decades-old industrial groundwater and soil  
contamination.

At a sparsely attended public hearing held at Jamestown Community  
College’s CUTCO Theater in Olean, EPA officials said traces of a  
cancer-causing industrial degreaser called trichloroethylene (TCE)  
discovered at the public tap water source in east Olean poses no  
immediate threat to human health. But they noted the TCE must go to  
meet state and federal environmental standards.

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Much like the roughly 500 acres of brownfields in north Olean,  
environmental officials pointed more than 30 years ago to potential  
contamination from east Olean companies Alcas; AVX; the former McGraw  
Edison, now Cooper Power Systems; and the former Loohn’s Dry  
Cleaners. But unlike those brownfields, for which contamination  
continues to hinder industrial development, the east Olean  
environmental issues have largely been remedied.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.oleantimesherald.com/article_c27f2856-1d73-11e4- 
bb94-0019bb2963f4.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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