[CPEO-BIF] TCE from Laun-Dry Supply Company, Albuquerque, New Mexico

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Health Risks Of Decades-Old Chemical Plume Remain Unstudied

By Ed Williams
KUNM New Mexico Public Radio
September 24, 2015


When state environment workers were taking groundwater samples in downtown Albuquerque back in the 1990s, they discovered a large plume of a solvent called trichloroethylene, or TCE - va toxic chemical that causes cancer and birth defects - just 35 feet below the ground. 

The Environment Department eventually traced the source of the TCE plume to an old industrial brick building near downtown Albuquerque owned by Laun-Dry Supply Company, a business that distributes dry cleaning chemicals. Over time, those chemicals seeped into the ground and spread through the shallow groundwater at least a mile and a half east under Creamland Dairies and other businesses, under a fire station, into a couple of cemeteries, and maybe even under people’s homes.

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For the entire article, see
http://kunm.org/post/health-risks-decades-old-chemical-plume-remain-unstudied#stream/0

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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