[CPEO-MEF] VOCs, COMMUNITIES: RAB formed at Cold Regions Lab (NH)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Advisory Board Formed To Oversee TCE Work

By Sarah Brubeck
Valley News (NH)
January 14, 2014


Hanover - A geophysicist, a former selectwoman and a retiree from  
Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory are among the people  
who will make up an advisory board that will oversee remediation of a  
carcinogenic chemical contaminating the soil of the Army research  
laboratory.

It has been nearly a year since officials at Cold Regions Research  
and Engineering Laboratory, or CRREL, first notified abutters that  
Trichloroethylene, or TCE, might have migrated undeground off the  
Army lab's campus on Route 10 to nearby businesses, Dartmouth College  
housing and Richmond Middle School.

Since then, indoor air samples showed no detectable levels of TCE  
within the middle school - although the compound is in the soil vapor  
on the school’s property. And while trace amounts of TCE were found  
in the air at nearby businesses and a few Dartmouth-owned homes to  
the south of the Army lab, officials deemed the levels safe.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.vnews.com/news/dartmouth/10197116-95/advisory-board-formed- 
to-oversee-tce-work

--

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>
http://www.cpeo.org

_______________________________________________
Military mailing list
Military@lists.cpeo.org
http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/military-cpeo.org