[CPEO-BIF] Vapor Intrusion in Greenpoint, New York City

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Vapor Intrusion in New York City
Greenpoint: The Tip of the Iceberg

Lenny Siegel
February 2009

For years New York State's environmental agencies have been conducting 
high-profile vapor intrusion responses upstate, but little has been 
reported about vapor intrusion in New York City, where about 42 percent 
of the state's population lives. However, the state's two-year-old 
investigation in Brooklyn's Greenpoint district suggests that there are 
few vapor intrusion sites in the City only because no one has looked.



To download the 6-page, 2.2 MB PDF report, go to
http://www.cpeo.org/pubs/GreenpointPlumes.pdf

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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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