[CPEO-BIF] TCE and PCE vapors in Franklin, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Vapor contamination plagues Franklin shops despite state clean-up

by Michael Gerstein
Detroit News (MI)
November 15, 2018


Franklin - Residents and state officials here are scrambling for answers after the discovery of a spike in potentially dangerous indoor vapors despite a large-scale cleanup effort.

In October, inspectors found chemical vapors for trichloroethylene, or TCE, and a common dry-cleaning agent called perchloroethylene, or perc, above state health standards in the Franklin Village Plaza's five shops.

They were initially puzzled because they already had installed a system that sucks up air contaminated by decades-old pollution in the plaza's historic building less than a half-mile from the Franklin Cider Mill. There had been a mandatory evacuation of the shops in March for nearly three weeks.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/oakland-county/2018/11/16/michigan-franklin-vapor-contamination-plague-cleanup/1734087002/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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