[CPEO-BIF] "DEC expands Meeker plume testing, " Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DEC expands Meeker plume testing

By Aaron Short
Courier-Life Publications (NY)
February 10, 2010

State Environmental and Health officials released new findings regarding 
a soil gas plume underneath Meeker Avenue in the northeast corner of 
Greenpoint, which include the discovery of very high levels of a toxin 
in the groundwater on an industrial lot.

At a public meeting on February 4 in St. Cecilia's Church Auditorium (24 
North Henry St.), Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Project 
Manager David Harrington noted that soil gas samplings under the 
southwest corner of Norman and Kingsland Avenues found 73 million parts 
per billion of PCE, or perchloroethylene, a chemical commonly used in 
industrial dry cleaning.

"We got hit in the face with it before we got our gear on," said 
Harrington. "It smelled like white-out times a thousand with a lot of 
sugar thrown in for a couple of seconds until my nasal lining burned 
out. That's pure product. If you smell something like that, that's when 
you know you've got the good stuff."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2010/02/08/brooklyn/courier-yn_brooklyn_front_page-meekerfeb.txt

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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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