[CPEO-BIF] Vapor Intrusion proposed as listing criterion

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Pompton Lakes gets hope from EPA


BY JAMES M. O'NEILL
The Record (NJ)
January 29, 2011

The Obama administration is weighing whether to include vapor intrusion 
as a factor when naming contaminated sites to the Superfund list — a 
move that could help Pompton Lakes residents in their effort to impose 
Superfund status on a local DuPont site.

DuPont's former munitions facility has been on the state's contaminated 
site list since the 1980s, but residents have grown more vocal about 
having it named a Superfund site in the effort to get it cleaned up.

The cancer-causing solvents PCE and TCE were used for decades on the 
DuPont site but migrated off the property in a groundwater plume that 
sits under about 450 nearby homes. The state discovered two years ago 
that the solvents were vaporizing up through the soil and into some 
homes, a process called vapor intrusion. DuPont has been installing 
vapor mitigation systems on the homes, but the polluted groundwater 
still needs to get cleaned up.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.northjersey.com/news/national/114850379_Pompton_Lakes_gets_hope_from_EPA.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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