[CPEO-BIF] "Toxic Plume In El Cajon [California] Reaches Beneath Mobile Home Park"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Toxic Plume In El Cajon Reaches Beneath Mobile Home Park

By Ingrid Lobet / inewsource
KPBS Radio News (San Diego, CA)
October 20, 2016 

State and county officials have long had a map that shows an underground plume of the toxic chemical trichloroethylene (TCE) stretching from a former aerospace firm in El Cajon for more than a mile toward the county airport, Gillespie Field.

An area of high concentration runs beneath a K-5 school, Magnolia Elementary. But the map also shows the plume flows beneath manufactured homes in a mobile home park adjacent to the school. No action and little testing have taken place there - until now.

The California Department of Toxic Substances Control issued a notification Oct. 6 after a contractor tested soil there and found TCE levels that left no doubt further testing should be done.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2016/oct/20/toxic-plume-el-cajon-reaches-beneath-mobile-home-p/

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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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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