[CPEO-BIF] Former M.E. Adams Co. vapor intrusion site, Johnston, Rhode Island

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chemicals from a polluted site in Johnston may be leaching into homes. Who owns it?

Alex Kuffner
Providence Journal
February 21, 2024


JOHNSTON – A defunct machine-parts factory that contaminated wells around Peck Hill Road decades ago may again be threatening public health in the area, this time through vapor-forming solvents possibly entering nearby homes and businesses. 

Environmental authorities have obtained a warrant to access the 4-acre site on Peck Hill Road near the Scituate town line to determine whether vapors from volatile organic compounds may be leaching into groundwater supplies and then migrating into buildings in the area, creating an inhalation risk to those inside. The intrusion of the vapors into enclosed spaces is similar to what happens to radon gas when it seeps into homes.

Site was contaminated with known carcinogens

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, at the request of the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management, applied for the warrant in federal court to conduct the investigation of the former M.E. Adams Co. Site at 91 Peck Hill Rd.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.providencejournal.com/story/news/environment/2024/02/21/how-a-polluted-manufacturing-site-is-still-contaminating-ri-homes/72671153007/

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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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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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