[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: PCE at Kodiak (AK) Coast Guard Base

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

[Please note that the report seems to be confusing TCE and PCE. - LS]

Base officials evacuate five from barracks after detecting low levels of 
toxic fumes

By RALPH GIBBS
Kodiak Daily Mirror (AK)
April 28, 2008

Residents of the Kodiak Coast Guard Base living in open-bay transient 
living quarters close to the Base dining facility were evacuated April 
18 after officials detected higher than normal traces of the chemical 
toxin tetrachloroethylene (TCE) in a mechanical room in the basement.

The building is normally used to temporarily house members of the Coast 
Guard.

"We have taken some of the transient folks in an area that was next to 
an area we detected some, basically, dry cleaning solvent-type fumes, at 
a low level," Base executive officer Cmdr. Scott Williams said. "We 
thought as a precaution, as we do more testing, we would evacuate those 
five people that were there for a very minimal time."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.kodiakdailymirror.com/?pid=19&id=6131

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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