[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Wyle Labs, Norco, CA

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Cleanup method considered for Norco's Wyle site poses 'tradeoff'


By ALICIA ROBINSON and PAIGE AUSTIN
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
May 9, 2008

Efforts to clean up toxic pollution at a former Norco aerospace testing 
lab could remove one contaminant but leave behind a known carcinogen, 
state officials said.

It is a balancing act. By cleaning up vast amounts of the hazardous 
chemical trichloroethylene, which can evaporate into the air around 
homes and schools near the site, it could create trace amounts of a 
known carcinogen, hexavalent chromium.

State officials overseeing the project being carried out by a firm hired 
by Wyle say that cleanup method will not be used unless they can 
minimize any public health risk. In preliminary tests, they found that 
hexavalent chromium -- also called chromium VI -- was created in the 
groundwater but had not traveled offsite.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_wyle10.431ed52.html

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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
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