From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Fri, 13 Feb 2009 16:15:45 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Morse Chain vapor intrusion, Ithaca, New York |
DEC reveals amended cleanup plan for TCE spill, opens it for public review By Krisy Gashler Ithaca Journal (NY) February 13, 2009ITHACA - Timothy Weber's house on South Cayuga Street tested clean for TCE 14 times. The 15th time, it showed up - lower than the state health department's safety threshold, but higher than some other states' safety thresholds, and high enough to trigger voluntary mitigation by Emerson Power Transmission up the hill. "You know I don't see it as this incredibly terrible threat that we've been exposed to all this time, because there's no evidence we were exposed to it all that time," Weber said. "But it does indicate to me that if you're saying that one 24-hour test or maybe a couple can characterize a house for all time, it indicates that was not enough to characterize this house." Morse Chain used trichloroethylene, or TCE, to degrease metal parts until 1977, sometimes discharging it into the fire water reservoir and sometimes directly into the city sewer system. The cancer-causing chemical seeped its way into the sewer lines, the groundwater and the air in factory buildings and nearby homes. ... For the entire article, see http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20090213/NEWS01/902130330 -- 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 _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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