2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2011 10:55:13 -0800 (PST)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Five-Year Review in Woburn, Massachusetts
 
EPA provides details for neighborhood water testing


By Linda Kush
GateHouse News Service/Woburn Advocate
January 27, 2011

Woburn, MA - Another brewing snowstorm couldn't keep 30 people away from Woburn City Hall Jan. 26 for a meeting with the Environmental Protection Agency. The subject was a new round of air and water testing in the Dewey and Olympia Avenues Neighborhood.

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The tests grew out of a Superfund site safety review that the EPA performs every five years. Last summer, EPA officials installed 14 new monitoring wells in addition to more than a dozen already on the site to measure levels of PCE in the groundwater. Tests showed that two purification systems were doing a good job: PCE levels have dropped considerably over 20 years. But they still exceeded the federal limit for drinking water, 5 parts per billion, in 16 wells.

The residents don't drink water from the site, but there is a danger that PCE could enter their homes as vapor through the foundation. Certain volatile chemicals migrate from the water table, through the soil and into the air where the sun breaks them down. But they tend to build up under foundations until they eventually leach through and are trapped in the enclosed building.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wickedlocal.com/woburn/features/x536396405/EPA-provides-details-for-neighborhood-water-testing

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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
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