New TCE findings at Wyle site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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State to brief neighbors of former Wyle Chemicals

NORCO: Officials will discuss the significance of TCE in samples from
yards near the Norco site.


By PAIGE AUSTIN
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
July 2, 2004

NORCO - State regulators will meet with residents on Golden West Lane in
Norco today to discuss toxic contamination that has migrated onto their
properties from nearby land formerly owned by Wyle Laboratories, a
hazardous-testing facility. 

The California Department of Toxic Substances Control this week analyzed
soil gas samples taken from the yards of six homes and found low levels
of trichloroethylene, or TCE, a substance suspected of causing cancer.
According to a report released to residents, the levels do not pose an
immediate health risk to the community. 

While state officials know that a plume of toxic groundwater is flowing
off the Wyle Labs site, they are still trying to understand where it has
gone. Recently, TCE contamination was discovered in a well drilled to
test groundwater on Wyle's border within about 30 feet of two Golden
West homes. At 11,000 parts per billion of TCE, the amount is reportedly
the highest level of groundwater contamination on the entire Wyle
property. 

The maximum contaminant level of TCE allowed in drinking water is 5
parts per billion, but not all groundwater ends up as drinking water.
The soil gas level of TCE contamination, 540 micrograms per liter,
discovered at the well site was roughly twice the state's threshold for
posing a long-term health threat. 

...

for the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/corona/stories/PE_News_Local_wyle02.5747c.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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