[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: TCE at school near Cold Regions Lab (NH) not vapor intrusion

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chemical Test Unnerves School

By Matt Hongoltz-Hetling
Valley News (NH)
January 24, 2015

Hanover - A positive test for a potentially carcinogenic compound  
earlier this week caused a stir at Richmond Middle School, which sits  
on a parcel that has been contaminated by the chemical.

School officials said they believe the positive test for  
trichloroethylene, or TCE, was an aberration caused by a cleaning  
agent, not a known vapor plume that's suspended in the soil, and is  
not an indication that the air quality in the school has been  
compromised.

Richmond Middle School is located across Route 10 from the Army's  
Cold Regions Research and Engineering lab, and prior testing has  
confirmed that TCE vapor has migrated across the road deep in the  
soil of the school. TCE was used as a liquid solvent at the lab  
decades ago, and there were large spills there in the 1970s.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.vnews.com/news/15363548-95/chemical-test-unnerves-school

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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