[CPEO-BIF] McCook Field neighborhood, Dayton, Ohio - vapor response

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Change bringing new hope to McCook Field


By Margo Rutledge Kissell
Dayton Daily News  (OH)
February 17, 2009

DAYTON - The Salvation Army is having an impact on the McCook Field 
neighborhood, although completion of the Ray and Joan Kroc Corps 
Community Center is still 15 months away.

"We're really seeing their outreach," said Jerry Bowling III, president 
of the McCook Field Neighborhood Association.

The $40 million project to construct four new buildings and renovate the 
historic Duncarrick mansion was delayed several months because the 
property falls within a plume of contaminated groundwater near the Behr 
Dayton Thermal Products plant, 1600 Webster St.

...

It hired Massachusetts-based environmental consultant GZA 
GeoEnvironmental Inc. to help deal with the trichloroethyrene, or TCE, a 
chemical used as a degreaser that's in the groundwater. The company 
designed a system that involves installing a barrier resistant to 
contaminants like TCE under the four new buildings at the site. In 
addition, a ventilation system to exhaust hazardous vapors that could 
build up underground will be installed below each barrier. It will 
collect any trapped vapors and send them through PVC pipes that will 
extend to the roof line of each building, according to Jeff Rowell, vice 
president of GZA.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2009/02/17/ddn021709mccookinside.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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