2012 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:35:50 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Vapor intrusion found at Phoenix Motorola Superfund site
 
Toxic chemicals discovered in Phoenix neighborhood


By Peter Busch
KPHO TV-5 News (Phoenix, AZ)
January 25, 2012

PHOENIX - The Environmental Protection Agency has discovered toxic chemicals beneath the ground of a southeast Phoenix neighborhood, and testing indicates that the chemicals have seeped into at least 16 homes or apartments. The EPA did soil vapor testing in the neighborhood directly west of the old Motorola plant at 52nd Street and McDowell Road.

That area was labeled a superfund site in 1989 because of the massive amount of industrial solvents that were dumped into the ground by the plant.

Test results detected levels of the chemical compound trichloroethylene, or TCE, as well tetrachloroethylene, or PCE, inside 16 homes or apartments at or above levels deemed safe.

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For the entire story, see
http://www.kpho.com/story/16593718/toxic-chemicals-discovered-in- phoenix-neighborhood

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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