[CPEO-BIF] TCE and Vapor Intrusion at former IBM plant, Endicott, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Far from the End in Endicott, New York

By Lenny Siegel
September, 2015

Endicott, New York is the birthplace of IBM. For decades “Big Blue”  
employed tens of thousands of people there. But over the same period  
IBM released large quantities of volatile organic compounds (VOCs)  
such as trichloroethylene (TCE) into the subsurface there. Since  
1979, when it first reported the release, IBM has spent tens of  
millions of dollars addressing the contamination. Off-site  
groundwater remediation and vapor mitigation have been remarkably  
successful, but contamination in the source areas remains high.  
Employees of IBM’s successors at the site are still being exposed to  
low levels of TCE.

To download the 7-page, 1.7 MB report, go to
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/Endicott2015.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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