[CPEO-BIF] Huge Las Vegas (NV) PCE plume

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Cleaners' chemical lingers in water, soil
Huge 'plume' traced to business under bankruptcy protection

By Joe Schoenmann
Las Vegas Sun (NV)
September 29, 2008

A massive plume of pollution under acres of homes, roads and a golf 
course in central Las Vegas is the worst of 28 sites in the valley 
contaminated by the same chemical.

At some point, someone winds up footing the bill for cleaning up those 
sites, and the Las Vegas National Golf Club case is turning out to be a 
local test of federal regulations outlining who pays when the polluter 
has filed for bankruptcy protection. In this case, the party in 
bankruptcy court is Al Phillips the Cleaner.

...

More worrisome, however, are the vapors from PCE that "can come up 
through the soil and potentially get into some of these houses" or other 
buildings that sit atop contaminated land, Pistone added.

The Maryland Square site is large and sweeps east from a former Al 
Phillips the Cleaner business at 3661 Maryland Parkway, north of Twain 
Avenue and west of the Boulevard Mall. The building that housed the dry 
cleaning business was demolished in 2006.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/sep/29/cleaners-chemical-lingers-water-soil/

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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