[CPEO-BIF] Missouri "studying records in latest Camdenton TCE inquiry"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

State studying records in latest Camdenton TCE inquiry

By AMY WILSON
Lake News Online (MO)
April 17, 2018 

A new investigation of another potential TCE contamination site in Camdenton is at a documentation review stage and may not go beyond that depending on what records reveal.

With a now decades-old Superfund site at 221 Sunset Drive, Camdenton continues to see former employees of the defunct manufacturing facility come forward with concerns about other potential contamination sites from the commonly-used industrial solvent trichloroethylene. TCE is a volatile organic compound (VOC) that is a recognized carcinogen with potential human health hazards for non-cancer toxicity to the central nervous system, kidney, liver, immune system, male reproductive system and the developing fetus.

Local interest in the old Superfund site was renewed with new testing at homes near the old manufacturing facility at 221 Sunset Drive and the plant itself a coupe of years ago. The impetus for new testing was a recognition of a gap in data related to relatively new evaluation guidelines on vapor intrusion from the Environmental Protection Agency.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.lakenewsonline.com/news/20180417/state-studying-records-in-latest-camdenton-tce-inquiry

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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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