[CPEO-BIF] "Air quality testing underway at homes near Lunt Silversmiths site in Greenfield, " Massachusetts

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Air quality testing underway at homes near Lunt Silversmiths site in Greenfield

By MARY BYRNE
Greenfield Recorder (MA)
January 30, 2023


GREENFIELD — Air quality testing has been completed in five of the nine homes located near the former Lunt Silversmiths property, with additional testing and information requested as part of the state Department of Environmental Protection’s expectations for the revised scope of site cleanup work.

Of the five houses that submitted to testing, trichloroethylene (TCE) was detected in one residence at a level considered “normal background,” indicating no significant risk, Mayor Roxann Wedegartner relayed in a notice to city councilors. Testing is pending for a property on Kenwood Street that hadn’t responded as of a remote meeting last month with city officials and the DEP. One property owner declined to participate in the sampling and two others have not responded. 

The air quality testing came at the request of MassDEP, which had identified an expanded list of sites for air quality testing as part of its response to the licensed site professional’s proposed scope of work for the environmental cleanup at the former Lunt Silversmiths property on Federal Street. In addition to the 20 Kenwood St. and 22 Kenwood St. properties identified by O’Reilly, Talbot & Okun (OTO), the DEP had asked the city to demonstrate, by Nov. 22, that it has requested access to seven more properties, which include two on Kenwood Street and five on Forest Avenue.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.recorder.com/Air-quality-testing-underway-at-homes-near-Lunt-Silversmiths-site-in-Greenfield-49745021

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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