[CPEO-BIF] Former Rickett’s Dry Cleaning site, Ballston Spa, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA: No health threat from Rickett’s site
Testing to continue

By Paul Post
Saratogian (NY)
January 30, 2018


BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. - Vapors from possible cancer-causing chemicals beneath the former Rickett’s Dry Cleaning site pose no health threat to nearby homes and businesses, officials say.

Last February, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency collected air samples at 50 properties near Rickett’s, a former long-time family run business on Route 50 that closed in 2014.

In a recent Community Update, the EPA said no corrective actions for vapor intrusion were required at any of the properties sampled.

“The concentrations of chemicals detected at the sampled properties were significantly below EPA’s established target levels which were developed to be protective of human health,” the agency says.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.saratogian.com/general-news/20180130/epa-no-health-threat-from-ricketts-site

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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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