[CPEO-BIF] Maryland Square cleanup, Las Vegas, Nevada

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Note: This article is about PCE, not TCE. - LS]

Carcinogenic Water Cleanup Will Last a Decade

By MIKE HEUER 
Courthouse News Service
November 19, 2015

LAS VEGAS (CN) - A federal judge approved a $7 million, decade-long plan to clean carcinogenic TCE from groundwater under Las Vegas.

The tetrachloroethylene was dumped by a dry cleaning business. The toxic plume stretches more than a mile underneath central Las Vegas and affects hundreds of homes in some of the city's oldest neighborhoods.

U.S. District Judge Robert Jones approved the cleanup plan on Nov. 9. Former Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto submitted the state's cleanup plan for approval in March.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/11/19/carcinogenic-water-cleanup-will-last-a-decade.htm

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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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