[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Vapor Intrusion at Army's Cold Regions Labs, Hanover, NH

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Intruder at the Border; A Toxin Emerges As Health Threat, But  
Official Action Comes Slowly

By Sarah Brubeck and Maggie Cassidy
Valley News (NH)
June 30, 2013

Hanover - Industrial pollution involving toxic chemicals is often  
associated with abandoned factories in Rust Belt towns. The last  
place it might be expected to pose a hazard is near a residential  
neighborhood and a new school in an Ivy League college town.

But that’s the case in Hanover, where earlier this year officials  
acknowledged that a cancer-causing chemical had been found at the  
border of the Army’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory  
on Lyme Road. The chemical, trichloroethylene, or TCE, is a solvent  
that had been used at CRREL for nearly three decades until 1987.

In March, the Army Corps of Engineers began tests to determine if TCE  
had spread beyond the lab to reach Richmond Middle School across the  
street, along with Dartmouth College housing to the south and  
neighboring properties.

No unsafe levels have been detected so far, but officials say the  
contaminants migrate slowly and will need to be monitored for years  
to come.


...

For the entire Part One article, see
http://www.vnews.com/news/7161937-95/part-one-intruder-at-the-border- 
a-toxin-emerges-as-health-threat-but-official

See Part Two
http://www.vnews.com/home/7162483-95/part-two-tce-testing-process- 
took-years-army-labs-neighbors-mixed-on-pace-of

and
http://www.vnews.com/news/7167865-95/air-systems-used-to-lower- 
exposure-risk

Valley News requires registration. One can get "five free articles,"  
but they seem to count intermediary web pages as articles. One can  
also get a $1 day pass.

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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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