2008 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:09:10 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] DCA vapors near Raytheon's St. Petersburg, Florida plume
 
Agency: Chemical Traces In Apartments Match Plume

By MARK DOUGLAS
News Channel 8/Tampa Tribune (FL)
September 17, 2008


The Florida Department of Health says air tests have uncovered one of the same chemicals found in the Raytheon groundwater pollution plume in the indoor air of five apartments and condominiums near the company's defense plant at 1501 72nd St. N. in St. Petersburg.

That plume began when a previous company owned the defense plant and has been spreading under the surrounding neighborhood for years.

According to EPA standards, 1,2 dichloroethane, also known as DCA, poses an increased cancer risk when inhaled over a lifetime at levels above .04 micrograms per cubic liter.

...

For the entire article, see
http://suncoastpinellas.tbo.com/content/2008/sep/17/agency-chemical-traces-apartments-match-raytheon-p/

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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
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