[CPEO-BIF] Behr - Chrysler, Dayton, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Chrysler to clean up only a portion of contaminated residences

By Ryan Justin Fox
Dayton Daily News (OH)
November 16, 2007

DAYTON - Environmental officials broke the news to close to a hundred 
residents at Kiser Middle School Thursday that Chrysler Corporation 
agreed to clean up only a portion of residences with contaminated 
groundwater seeping up in their homes.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said that it will use available 
taxpayer funds to cover the other 200 potentially-contaminated homes in 
the eastern portion of the McCook Field neighborhood.

EPA officials found dangerously-high levels of trichloroethylene (TCE) 
in homes and schools in the immediate vicinity of Behr Dayton Thermal 
Products plant at 1600 Webster Street last year.

Environmental officials said that the chemical - which used to be used 
as a degreaser and a cleaner - seeped into soil and groundwater after a 
spill and is now vaporizing into harmful air in residences.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/11/16/ddn111607epaweb.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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