[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: School near Cold Regions Lab (NH)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Officials: TCE Test Misleading
Positive Reading Not ‘Vapor Intrusion’

By Maggie Cassidy
Valley News (NH)
February 5, 2015 

Hanover - The testing schedule for a potentially carcinogenic compound inside Richmond Middle School will resume to normal after officials said they are confident that a positive test last month was no more than an aberration.

The trace amounts of trichloroethylene, or TCE, detected in the school during planned testing on Martin Luther King Jr. Day were discussed Wednesday night by a board made up of officials from  the Army’s Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, community members and other parties knowledgeable on hazardous waste remediation.

Officials on Wednesday night said that a second test came back negative for the chemicals. The results were “almost like a test of the emergency broadcast system,” said board member Ken Richards, a project coordinator with the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.vnews.com/news/15540308-95/officials-tce-test-misleading

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Lenny Siegel
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