[CPEO-BIF] "How did chemicals get in water near two Evansville [Indiana] schools?"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

How did chemicals get in water near two Evansville schools?

by Mark Wilson
Evansville Courier & Press (IN)
November 24, 2017

EVANSVILLE — High levels of hazardous dry cleaning solvents are contaminating groundwater near two schools, prompting cleanups.

An environmental consultant working on the cleanups says neither school is at risk.

Amy Hood, a resident of a home next door to one of the contaminated sites, says she has struggled with neurological health effects similar to those that might be caused by the chemicals, as well as cancer, and she wonders if there is a connection. 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.courierpress.com/story/news/local/2017/11/24/how-did-chemicals-get-water-near-two-evansville-schools/860032001/

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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>
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