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From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 16:11:00 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] "EPA testing Grenada [Mississippi] subdivision for TCE contamination"
 
EPA testing Grenada subdivision for TCE contamination

By Mel Carlock 
WTVA (MS)
March 15, 2016


GRENADA, Miss. (WTVA) -- Some Grenada residents are looking for answers about medical problems and their connection to contamination from an old hubcap operation in the city.

East Heights Community members held a rally in downtown Grenada Monday to call attention to high rates of cancer they say can trace to contamination in the area of TCE.

The cleaner and degreaser was used at Rockwell International plant in the 1960s to clean hubcaps as part of the manufacturing process.

…

For the entire story, see
http://www.wtva.com/news/local/EPA_testing_Grenada_subdivision_for_TCE_contamination.html

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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
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