[CPEO-BIF] "Water officials testing 3 new [San Luis Obispo, California] sites as possible source of TCE contamination"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Water officials testing 3 new SLO sites as possible source of TCE contamination


By Matt Fountain
San Luis Obispo Tribune (CA)
December 8, 2016 

Three business properties in the Thread Lane/Buckley Road area next to the San Luis Obispo County Regional Airport will be investigated as potential sources of trichloroethylene (TCE), a toxic solvent found to exceed safe levels in groundwater in the Buckley Road area in January 2016.

On Thursday, the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board announced that since the airport was found not to be the source of the contaminant in February, the agency has conducted extensive soil gas and groundwater sampling in the area and will investigate three properties on Thread Lane in the coming months.

Letters were sent Nov. 17 to the three companies — Apple River & Company LP, SLO Buckley Properties LLC, and Noll Properties Inc. — to notify them of of their requirement to submit work plans for TCE investigations by Jan. 16.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/environment/article119758743.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/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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