[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Annniston Depot (AL) TCE use

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Anniston last Army site to still use TCE regularly

By Jeremy Cox
Anniston Star (AL)
September 3, 2008

Inside Building 130 at Anniston Army Depot, where Stanley Dulaney worked 
for 14 years, the acrid air stung his nasal passages. His nose ran 
constantly. It felt like he had just eaten a spoonful of horseradish.

"You walked in there and you'd get a head rush," said Dulaney, 57, a 
retired machinist.

When Dulaney worked in Building 130 from the early 1980s to the 
mid-1990s, it was one of the biggest users of trichloroethylene, or TCE, 
at the hardworking installation. Dulaney spent about half of his career 
inside the building, modifying engine blocks on 12-cylinder combat 
vehicle engines.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.annistonstar.com/showcase/2008/as-open-0903-0-8i02x3927.htm

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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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