2015 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 08:48:14 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Adelaide, South Australia vapor intrusion "scandal"
 
Adelaide groundwater contamination scandal spreads to large new areas of Glenelg East and Edwardstown


by BRAD CROUCH, CLARE PEDDIE
Adelaide Advertiser (South Australia)
November 10, 2015


LARGE new areas of Edwardstown and Glenelg East to be assessed for potentially poisonous vapour as Adelaide’s groundwater contamination scandal continues to spread.

The tests are for the chemical trichlorethene (TCE), the industrial solvent spreading in groundwater which saw homes evacuated in Clovelly Park.

Of those evacuated homes, 25 are due to be demolished by the end of the year.

The Environmental Protection Authority has written to residents in southeastern Edwardstown advising them the area being checked in Edwardstown has significantly expanded, to an area bounded by Dunloran Rd, Adelaide Tce and Albert St.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/adelaide-groundwater-contamination-scandal-spreads-to-large-new-areas-of-glenelg-east-and-edwardstown/story-fni6uo1m-1227605213554

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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