[CPEO-BIF] Park Cleaners PCE plume, Burlington, Vermont

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

PCE leaves a toxic legacy

Fumes concern property owners

By Sam Hemingway
Burlington Free Press (VT)
June 7, 2009

Few Burlingtonians may remember Park Cleaners, a dry-cleaning business 
run out of the old Blinn House on 151 South Champlain St. in 1958.

The business lasted only one year at the site, but its brief time there 
was long enough to create a troublesome underground chemical 
contamination plume that today stretches from the aging, paint-chipped 
building almost to the shores of Lake Champlain.

The culprit: tetrachloroethylene, or PCE for short, a chemical widely 
used by dry cleaners and apparently discharged into the soil by Park 
Cleaners’ employees. The chemical can cause headaches and dizziness in 
the short term and, potentially, cancer later on.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20090607/NEWS02/90606018

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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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