2004 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 1 Jul 2004 07:56:58 -0000
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: TCE in Pottstown's Air
 
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State targets TCE risk at air quality meeting

Evan Brandt
Pottstown Mercury (PA)
June 30, 2004

POTTSTOWN -- Reporting to the community on what they say are just the first of many reports on the air quality in the Pottstown area, state officials focused discussion Tuesday on the high levels of a potential carcinogen found in the air over the course of nearly two years of sampling.

Trichloroethylene, more commonly known as TCE, was one of 37 volatile organic compounds found in air samples taken at a stationary monitoring station at Pottstown High School starting in 2002 and by a mobile sampling unit over the past several months in areas throughout the borough, all three Pottsgroves and even Douglass (Berks).

Officials with the Department of Environmental Protection have focused on the TCE because two samples taken in 2002 put the area's average annual exposure at a higher level than in samples taken elsewhere in the state.

The sampling, which is done every six days, indicates the TCE levels have been dropping since the 2002 high.



for the entire story, see
http://www.pottstownmercury.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12151348&BRD=1674&PAG=461&dept_id=18041&rfi=6

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