[CPEO-BIF] Victor, NY vapor

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Victor cancer data sought

State to ask residents in suspect area for further reports tonight

Steve Orr
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (NY)
April 26, 2007

The state Department of Health, weighing a request that it conduct a 
cancer cluster study in a part of Victor beset with contaminated 
groundwater, will ask residents at a meeting in the town tonight to 
report more cancer cases.

The request for a cancer study, passed on to Albany last week by state 
Sen. Michael Nozzolio, originated with a Victor citizens group that is 
pressing for more answers on the health impact of the contamination. The 
group's agenda also includes a better explanation of the results of 
recent testing for the presence of toxic vapors in Victor homes.

State officials say that only two of the first 24 homes tested had 
enough vapor penetration to merit the installation of special 
ventilation systems. The overall results, though, show the presence of 
at least trace levels of toxic vapors in the soil beneath almost all the 
homes that were checked — which prompted one resident to say that more 
ventilation systems are needed.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070426/NEWS01/704260351/1003

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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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