[CPEO-BIF] Workers TCE exposure in Milford (CT)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Workers want answers on contamination in Milford 

By FRANK JULIANO
Connecticut Post 
November 21, 2005

MILFORD - More than three years of soil and water tests, legislative
hearings and administrative reviews have not provided answers about how
a toxic chemical polluted groundwater and soil in the city's industrial area.

House Speaker James A. Amann, D-Milford, said last week that a
legislative staffer's report on how the trichlororethylene (TCE)
contamination occurred will be forwarded to Chief State's Attorney
Christopher Morano and state Attorney General Richard Blumenthal for
further investigation.

Civil fines and criminal charges are possible, Amann said, "but at this
point, two workers are dead and a third is very sick. We want answers to
five very basic questions."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.connpost.com/news/ci_3238405

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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
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