[CPEO-BIF] Laun-Dry Supply workers were exposed to toxic vapors, Albuquerque, New Mexico

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chemical Company Exposed Workers To Hazardous Solvents

By Ed Williams
KUNM Public Radio (NM)
December 17, 2015

Over a period of decades, cancer-causing solvents quietly seeped from  
a warehouse owned by Laun-Dry Supply Co. into the groundwater  
underneath dozens of homes and businesses near downtown Albuquerque.  
Today the plume of contamination stretches a mile and a half across  
the city, putting hundreds of people at risk of chemical exposure.

And government records show that employees of Laun-Dry were exposed  
to toxins from the plume.

"When we collected the first soil vapor sample, we were digging and  
you could smell it, almost like an airplane glue kind of smell," said  
Baird Swanson. Today he’s a private environmental consultant, but  
back in 2005 he was an investigator for the New Mexico Environment  
Department. He was digging for soil samples at Laun-Dry Supply  
Company, after discovering a leaking chemical tank there.

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For the entire article, see
http://kunm.org/post/chemical-company-exposed-workers-hazardous- 
solvents#stream/0

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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