[CPEO-BIF] Valmont (Pennsylvania) Industrial Park TCE response

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Valmont cleanup treating TCE danger

By KENT JACKSON
Hazleton Standard Speaker (PA)
October 5, 2015


Pouring a chemical into wells at a Superfund site in the Valmont Industrial Park is neutralizing a hazardous substance that leaked into ground water decades ago, the project manager overseeing the cleanup for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said.

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Beneath 16 homes, the EPA installed fans and pipes to divert fumes that might contain TCE from basements and create a “preferential pathway for the TCE to travel away from the homes,” White said.

He and other workers for the EPA inspect the vapor removal systems regularly and have replaced a few of them. Homeowners telephone if their systems quit or grow loud.

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For the entire article, see
http://standardspeaker.com/news/valmont-cleanup-treating-tce-danger-1.1953191

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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