[CPEO-BIF] "Company offers air testing to all El Cajon [California] mobile home residents"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Company offers air testing to all El Cajon mobile home residents

by Ingrid Lobet 
iNewsSource
June 15, 2017



Ametek, Inc. is offering to test the air in any home in the three mobile home communities located over an increasingly high profile chemical plume that runs underground through part of El Cajon.

The company is among those responsible for disposing of waste chemicals from a manufacturing site decades ago, and is now the sole responsible party. Another, Ketema Aerospace, went bankrupt.

Dr. Mary McDaniel, an environmental medicine physician consulting with Ametek, made the offer to residents at a community meeting Wednesday night attended by some 30 residents. “We are happy to do that for them,” she said.
The move to offer air testing comes as a relief to some residents. It is a stronger and more direct approach than the state has offered so far.

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For the entire article, see
http://inewsource.org/2017/06/15/company-offers-air-testing/

See also http://www.cbs8.com/story/35677550/company-offers-air-testing-to-all-el-cajon-mobile-home-residents
for TV coverage.


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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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