From: | Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Thu, 24 Jun 2021 14:43:57 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Dry-cleaning solvent investigation in Santa Cruz, California |
Potential contamination at Capitola Road and 17th Avenue area By HANNAH HAGEMANN Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA) June 24, 2021 SANTA CRUZ — Residents living and working in the Capitola Road and 17th Avenue areas may be impacted by dry cleaning solvent contamination, according to a set of public notices posted online by the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board. Tetrachloroethylene, or PCE, and trichloroethylene, or TCE, are solvents that likely originated from former dry cleaning operations at 1600 Capitola Road, which according to the water board, ceased in the mid ’80s. … The notices, in total, were sent to 132 entities, including landlords, tenants and residents, as well as homeowner’s associations, according to Dan Niles an engineering geologist with the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, who’s overseeing the investigation. … For the entire article, see https://www.santacruzsentinel.com/2021/06/23/state-water-board-capitola-road-and-17th-avenue-area-residents-face-potential-pce-and-tce-contamination/ — 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 Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918 http://www.cpeo.org Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org) _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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