[CPEO-BIF] "Revised standard prompts more tests at former IBM site, " Endicott, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Revised standard prompts more tests at former IBM site

by Tom Wilber
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin
March 6, 2016

Metal canisters strategically placed in buildings on the Huron campus in Endicott represent the latest effort to capture information about an environmental hazard lurking out of sight for more than 35 years.

Each about the size of a bowling ball perched on a cylindrical base, the canisters will collect air samples in March and April in 14 of the approximately 60 buildings at the former Microelectronics Division of IBM Corp. Technicians will place them in occupied buildings where previous tests have found traces of trichloroethylene  above 2 micrograms per cubic meter.

The buildings sit on land polluted with toxic chemicals before federal regulations prohibited the once-common practice of dumping them into the ground. The primary pollutant is trichloroethylene (TCE), an industrial solvent widely used in the military and manufacturing in the 20th century.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/local/2016/03/06/revised-standard-prompts-more-tests-former-ibm-site/81041188/

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