[CPEO-BIF] "Concerns Linger About Toxic Plume at Irving Street Project, " San Francisco, Californnia

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Concerns Linger About Toxic Plume at Irving Street Project

By Jonathan Farrell
SUNSET BEACON (San Francisco, CA)
AUGUST 13, 2025

As construction continues at 2550 Irving St., questions and demands remain about the cleanup and City and state response to the toxic plume.

As reported in the June issue of the Sunset Beacon, the new affordable housing project site apparently sits upon a toxic plume of perchloroethylene/tetrachloroethylene gas (PCE.) The chlorinated solvent was allegedly released into the earth from former dry cleaners which once operated near that location, as they used the substance in their cleaning process.

In December of last year, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned the use of PCE. Exposure to the gas is known to cause cancer and is linked to neurological diseases, such as Parkinson’s, according to the Centers for Disease Control.

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For the entire article, see
https://richmondsunsetnews.com/2025/08/13/concerns-linger-about-toxic-plume-at-irving-street-project/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650-961-8918
http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)




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