[CPEO-MEF] Wyle Labs (CA) - new sampling results

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

NORCO: The chemicals turn up in groundwater and soil in an area where 
thyroid cancer cases occurred.

By PAIGE AUSTIN
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
March 12, 2005

State officials have found cancer-causing chemicals in the groundwater 
and soil beneath the same Norco neighborhood where a string of thyroid 
disorders and cancers prompted residents to demand an investigation 
almost two years ago.

The underground plume of contamination, which is within a half-mile of 
Norco High School and Norco Intermediate School, has spread farther into 
the community and at higher levels than state officials investigating 
the contaminated Wyle Labs property originally thought.

At the time, Wyle and state officials insisted that pollution could not 
have reached so far away from the hazardous-testing facility, which 
closed in late 2004.

Over the past two years, dozens of Wyle neighbors have blamed the lab's 
pollution for their health problems, even though regulators have not 
found a link between the contamination pollution and the cases of cancer 
and thyroid disease.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/breakingnews/local/stories/PE_News_Local_M_wyle12.585e8.html
--
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
http://www.cpeo.org

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