[CPEO-BIF] Brighton, New York dry cleaners

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Dry cleaner on Monroe Ave. reports release of solvents

Steve Orr
Rochester Democrat & Chronicle (NY)
November 23, 2009

A third dry cleaner in a three-block stretch of Monroe Avenue in 
Brighton has reported releases of toxic solvents into the environment, 
adding to an already complicated cleanup effort that began in the 
neighborhood six years ago.

Dry-cleaning solvents released from two other sites have flowed through 
groundwater under homes near Monroe Avenue a few blocks southeast of 
Twelve Corners, an area that also sustained a major gasoline spill in 
2003. Several dozen homes and businesses there have been tested for 
harmful vapors in recent years, and special ventilation systems were 
installed in 15 structures, most of them residences.

The latest problem is at Town and Country Cleaners at 2308 Monroe Ave., 
where New York state-funded sampling has found that soil and groundwater 
near its building is contaminated with tetrachloroethene, a common 
dry-cleaning solvent, and related chemicals.

...

For the entire article, see
http://rocnow.com/article/local-news/2009911230335

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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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