[CPEO-BIF] "Hillside site cleanup continues in Needham, " Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Hillside site cleanup continues in Needham

By Jonathan Dame

Needham Times (MA)
April 13. 2015

A Needham company responsible for the underground contamination of  
land near Hillside Elementary School will take action directly on the  
school site for the first time this summer.

Contamination levels on the school site itself have remained  
relatively constant over the last 15 years, and recent testing has  
shown the area of sustained contamination to be wider than previously  
suspected.

Luke Legere, special counsel for the town, described the location as  
“that one remaining area where contamination remains high” when  
meeting with selectmen last month.

Microwave Development Laboratories has been involved in mitigation  
efforts since the contamination - consisting primarily of  
trichloroethene, or TCE - was discovered in 1985, but so far direct  
interventions have been focused uphill and downhill from the school  
site.

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For the entire article, see
http://needham.wickedlocal.com/article/20150413/NEWS/150419807



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Lenny Siegel
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