[CPEO-BIF] "IBM cleanup: 'Big issues behind us' in Endicott" (NY)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

IBM cleanup: 'Big issues behind us' in Endicott

by Tom Wilber
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
September 29, 2016

Cleanup efforts have significantly lowered levels of a toxic solvent found in indoor air at the Huron Campus in Endicott, according to the most recent tests at the storied manufacturing site.

While officials cited the results as a sign the 35-year cleanup at the plant — once a centerpiece to IBM Corp.’s global business empire — is heading toward the “home stretch,” critics warned against complacency.

Locations affected by trichloroethylene, or TCE, pollution at or above the state exposure guideline fell from 71 in 2005 to five, according to a report by Sanborn Head Engineering, an IBM contractor. The report was released this week by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/story/news/local/2016/09/29/ibm-pollution-cleanup-tce-trichloroethylene-dec-ny-endicott/91185096/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
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