[CPEO-BIF] "Tests reveal vapors entered homes in El Cajon, " California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tests reveal vapors entered homes in El Cajon

by Ingrid Lobet 
inewsource
May 1, 2017
	
Vapors from a dangerous chemical that runs underground in El Cajon have seeped into people’s homes, new air testing shows, contrary to what some residents were led to expect when they learned of the plume last October. In some homes, people may have breathed the gas for years or even decades.

State officials offered 19 households in the Starlight Mobile Home Park and Greenfield Mobile Home Estates air testing four days after inewsource reported the plume ran beneath their community, and 18 days after the Department of Toxic Substances Control issueda Proposition 65 hazard warning.

It is the first time anyone has assessed the air inside homes in the 30 years since a county employee discovered the contamination, despite the fact the community borders Magnolia Elementary School, which closed temporarily over the issue and is perforated with monitoring wells.

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For the entire article, see
http://inewsource.org/2017/05/01/vapors-entered-homes-el-cajon/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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