[CPEO-BIF] Plume from Ithaca, New York gun factory

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEC starts new round of testing near gun-factory site

by David Hil
Ithaca Journal (NY)
February 23, 2015


The New York Department of Environmental Conservation is checking the indoor air of some homes and businesses in the Fall Creek neighborhood to see the extent of a plume of an industrial cleaner once used nearby at the former Ithaca Gun factory.

The agency has scheduled indoor air sampling this week and perhaps in March in an area of approximately 60 homes or businesses generally bounded by Queen Street to the south, Fall Creek to the north, Lake Street to the east and Tioga Street to the west.

It is a continuation of indoor-air sampling done last year at 21 properties to gather soil vapor intrusion samples, according to DEC spokesman Jomo Miller.

The testing was begun after a consulting firm working for the City of Ithaca in May 2013 reported that trichloroethylene, known as TCE, showed up in one of several test wells into the groundwater downhill from the gun-factory site.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/local/2015/02/23/testing-resumes-downhill-gun-factory-site/23907977/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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