[CPEO-BIF] TCE inside the Wyliepalooza Ice Cream shop, Brownsburg, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Brownsburg shop owners concerned over discovery of contaminants

By Bennett Haeberle
WISH TV-8 News (Indianapolis, IN)
February 12, 2016


BROWNSBURG, Ind. (WISH) - Emails sent between a state project manager and an environmental contractor detailed an “urgent situation.”

The project manager for the Indiana Department of Environmental Management wrote in a Jan. 7 email: “there is an urgent situation at the Wyliepalooza Ice Cream shop... please take action within 30 days to lower the contaminant levels…”

The environmental contractor replied back the following day, stating that he understood “the urgency of the matter.”

But more than a month after those emails were exchanged, managers and owners of several shops at a Brownsburg strip mall tell I-Team 8 they were unaware that high levels of a contaminant known as trichloroethylene - or TCE - had been detected in the air of at least two of the businesses.

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For the entire story, see
http://wishtv.com/2016/02/12/brownsburg-shop-owners-concerned-over-discovery-of-contaminants/

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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>
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