[CPEO-BIF] "El Cajon [California] toxic plume still a problem for mobile home residents"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

El Cajon toxic plume still a problem for mobile home residents

by Nicole Tyau 
inewssource
February 23, 2018
	

Ana Hayes moved into her home at the Starlight Mobile Home Park in El Cajon in 1969. It’s where she raised her three children, and it’s where she and her husband still live. 

Trichloroethylene is a common industrial solvent that has caused significant groundwater pollution throughout the U.S. TCE also has been linked to kidney and liver cancers, among other health problems. In El Cajon, mobile homes and a school sit atop a TCE groundwater plume that has existed for more than three decades.

Hers is one of the 457 mobile homes that sits above a toxic groundwater plume that residents first learnedabout in October 2016, though state officials and the company responsible for the contamination knew about it in the late 1980s. 

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For the entire article, see
https://inewsource.org/2018/02/23/el-cajon-plume-problem/

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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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