[CPEO-BIF] Another Milwaukee, Wisconsin apartment building evacuated for vapor intrusion

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

[Last time it was low-income residences. This time it’s luxury units. - LS]

Six apartments evacuated at a complex next to Bayshore after carcinogen detected

By Yash Roy
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
July 18, 2023

Residents of six new luxury apartments at Glendale's Bayshore development were forced to evacuate after testing revealed at least 10 times the legal limit of a cancer-causing chemical.

Dallas-based Cypress Equities LLC, Bayshore's operator, moved residents into the apartments prior to completing the state-recommended testing which is supposed to follow environmental cleanup for Trichloroethylene, or TCE. The structures are being built on a former landfill.

Cypress plans to relocate all residents from what is called Building 3 in the Lydell complex, where the initial evacuations occurred Sunday. That came one week after the reopening of a Bayshore parking garage, which partly collapsed in February.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2023/07/18/new-bayshore-luxury-apartments-evacuated-after-carcinogen-detected/70422425007/

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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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