[CPEO-BIF] Norco (CA) High School vinyl chloride

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contaminant burden on district
Tests find no link between Norco High toxins, Wyle labs

By Andrea Bennett
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin (CA)
February 26, 2007

NORCO - After recent tests at Norco High School cleared Wyle 
Laboratories of responsibility for vinyl chloride found in the school's 
science building, the buck was essentially passed on to the school district.

"Once they made the conclusion there wasn't a connection to Wyle, they 
weren't as concerned about it," said Ted Rozzi, superintendent of 
facilities for Corona-Norco Unified School District.

State experts said data revealed vinyl chloride in indoor air at the 
high school did not after all seem to be a breakdown of TCE, or 
trichloroethylene, in the groundwater beneath it.

Scientists for the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, 
which oversees the contamination cleanup from the former munitions and 
product testing facility's activities, said this month that a likely 
culprit of the vinyl chloride is the building itself.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_5305891

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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