[CPEO-MEF] VOCs: Cold Regions Labs (NH) talks to Richmond Middle School students

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

From Labs to Middle Schools

By Rob Wolfe 
Valley News (NH)
January 30, 2018
 

Hanover - A team of scientists cleaning up environmental pollution at a federal laboratory on Lyme Road faced down questions from an unusual audience on Tuesday: a roomful of seventh-graders at Richmond Middle School.

Army Corps of Engineers officials at the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory for decades have been tracking spills of an industrial chemical called trichloroethylene, or TCE, that in recent years was found to be traveling underground toward the school, across the street.

Recent investigations found no danger to Richmond or any of CRREL’s neighbors, either through liquid contaminant or through gas in the soil. In the meantime, teacher Ginger Wallis has turned the experience into a lesson for students.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.vnews.com/TCE-Richmond-School-15200148

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Lenny Siegel
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