[CPEO-BIF] TCE at Indiana subdivision

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Far-Southside residents worry about solvent in soil
Possible health risk has yet to be determined, officials say

By Paul Bird and John Tuohy
Indianapolis Star (IN)
September 21, 2005

Edith Mitchell drives around her Cedar Park subdivision on the Far 
Southside and almost snarls behind the protective mask she wears over 
her face.

Popping out from several lawns are 5-foot-tall white pipes monitoring a 
potentially harmful industrial solvent in the soil.

The discovery last year of the solvent, known as TCE, or 
trichloroethylene, is killing off the Perry Township subdivision even 
before it's finished, Mitchell, 62, said. People are moving out before 
they sell their homes; new buyers can't get loans for homes in the 
subdivision; and the developer has stopped building until testing of the 
soil is finished.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050921/NEWS01/509210430

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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
http://www.cpeo.org

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