[CPEO-BIF] "Dream house deferred " in Milwaukee

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dream house deferred 

Carcinogen, cleanup problems plague couple's home on former tannery site

By FELICIA THOMAS-LYNN
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
May 18, 2005

The American dream has turned into a nightmare for Green and Glenda
Jackson after the couple learned that the site where they built their
first home is contaminated with a chemical believed to be linked to cancer.

In its former life, the property - in the 1600 block of W. Galena St. -
was a gas station and leather tannery. Traces of trichloroethylene, or
TCE, a solvent sometimes used to degrease metal parts, has been found in
the soil underneath the Jacksons' home.

"Someone should have known this," said Glenda Jackson, whose property
formerly belonged to the City of Milwaukee. "We are very angry that the
city allowed us to stay in this house with all of the known health risk.
I don't want us to end up with cancer."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.jsonline.com/news/metro/may05/327158.asp

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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