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[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Vapor Anxiety at the Hanes-Lowrance Middle School Campus, Winston- 
Salem, North Carolina

Lenny Siegel
June, 2015

On January 24, 2015 the Winston-Salem Journal reported that the Hanes- 
Lowrance Middle School Campus, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, sat  
above groundwater plumes of toxic chlorinated volatile organic  
compounds. The company responsible for the contamination, situated  
immediately across Indiana Avenue from the front of the school, had  
been addressing the contamination source for more than a decade. The  
disclosure ignited a firestorm of anxiety among parents who had no  
idea, until the news report, that hazardous substances underlay the  
campus. On February 10 the school board voted to close the school,  
despite evidence that indoor air contamination remained below North  
Carolina’s exposure standard.

To download the entire 10-page report, go to
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/HaLo.pdf

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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