[CPEO-BIF] TCE at Weston Elementary School, Ripon, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tests find carcinogen in tap water at Ripon school. Maybe it wasn’t the cell tower.

BY KEN CARLSON
Modesto Bee (CA)
SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

A chemical compound that is a known carcinogen was detected in the drinking water at Ripon’s Weston Elementary School last March, during the same month parents were protesting a cellular tower as the possible cause of cancer cases among students.

Testing conducted for Ripon Unified School District in March found trichloroethylene (TCE) in the school’s tap water. The city and state regulators have tracked TCE in the groundwater since a contaminated plume was linked to the former Nestle plant in Ripon, which for decades made decaffeinated coffee. The plant closed in 1994.

The TCE concentration was .56 micrograms per liter in a March 18 sample taken at Weston. That is above the level for reporting the drinking water contamination.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.modbee.com/news/local/article235563337.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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