[CPEO-BIF] "State and Franklin city officials knew toxins were migrating into neighborhood in 2013, " Franklin, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Report: State and Franklin city officials knew toxins were migrating into neighborhood in 2013

by SANDRA CHAPMAN
WTHR-13 TV News (Indianapolis, IN)
November 10, 2018

FRANKLIN, Ind.  - New questions are being raised about the lack of action taken by federal, state and Franklin city officials in 2013 after discovering cancer-causing chemicals leaching into a neighborhood.

The new report comes to light as environmentalist and advocate Erin Brockovich visits Indiana and talks about sick children and contamination in Franklin.

Thirty homes are now targeted for testing by the EPA in Franklin, near Hamilton Avenue and Forsyth. That's where the cancer causing chemicals TCE and PCE were detected in ground water and near sewers. In one case, TCE was detected 252 times above the state's acceptable screening levels.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.wthr.com/article/report-state-and-franklin-city-officials-knew-toxins-were-migrating-neighborhood-2013

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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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