[CPEO-BIF] New York vapor intrusion site(s)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEC may delay cleanup at city site

BY TOM WILBER
Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin (NY)
July 18, 2005 

BINGHAMTON - A $400,000 Superfund cleanup of an abandoned dry cleaning
site may be delayed for another year, as state environmental officials
are spread thin tracking similar problems throughout the state. 

Recent tests show subterranean gases from perchloroethylene at the
former American Cleaners site on Walnut Street are entering an adjacent
building, according to Kevin Sarnowicz, an engineer with the state
Department of Environmental Conservation. 

The state is offering to install a system to divert the gases from the
property right away, he said. But a plan to demolish the offending dry
cleaning site and excavate the polluted soil beneath it, originally
planned for this summer, may have to wait, he said. 

That's because the problem, known as vapor intrusion, is cropping up in
many sites throughout the state tainted with solvents such as
perchloroethylene (PCE) and trichloroethylene (TCE). 

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pressconnects.com/today/news/stories/ne071805s179460.shtml

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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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