[CPEO-BIF] Material Sciences Corp. chemical spill and Canfield High School TCE sampling, Canfield, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Early results of Canfield spill tests show promise

By Ed Runyan
Youngstown Vindicator (OH)
March 14, 2025

CANFIELD — Testing for a specific contaminant on Canfield High School property connected to the July Material Sciences Corp. chemical spill took place Feb. 14 to Feb. 17 as planned, and preliminary results are promising, a document supplied by the school district’s environmental consultant states.

Two temporary groundwater wells were drilled and sampled in the high school parking lot near the walking path to the Mill Creek MetroParks Bikeway and one near the weight training / wrestling room on the west side of the high school, a document from the consulting companies Intertek PSI of Cleveland and INCompliance of Columbus state. Sampling also was done at six temporary “soil gas points and to sub-slab soil gas points,” the document, released this week, states.

The document contains a March 4 letter from PSI to Canfield Schools Superintendent Joe Knoll that states PSI conducted “a third-party / peer review” of testing being carried out by August Mack, a company hired by Material Sciences Corp. August Mack is in charge of cleanup activities resulting from a chemical release at MSC, which is just west of the high school.

The purpose of the groundwater and soil-gas testing is to determine the extent of Trichloroethylene (TCE) contamination detected on the MSC property after the spill was discovered.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2025/03/early-results-of-canfield-spill-tests-show-promise/

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Lenny Siegel
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