2012 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:40:33 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Dracut sports center (Massachusetts) "Parents want answers"
 
Parents want answers on toxins at Dracut sports center

By John Collins
Lowell Sun/Valley Dispatch (MA)
October 10, 2012

DRACUT -- Seven Dracut parents whose children may have ingested toxic vapors during the years they played inside the former location of the Future Stars Sports Training Center told selectmen Tuesday they never saw any notices about ongoing hazardous-chemical mitigation efforts in the Navy Yard Mill complex, as the owner claimed he posted.

Responding to local parents' growing concerns and unanswered questions about the 100 Pleasant St. commercial-rental property, which the EPA closed in August due to unacceptable levels of trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethylene (PCE) found on the site, Selectmen Chairman Cathy Richardson said the town will host a second informational session with EPA and Mass. DEP officials and pediatricians at a date to be determined.

"(The EPA representatives) have been very good about making themselves available, and have shown they're willing to work with the parents," said Richardson. "The parents definitely need to have another meeting to discuss this and ask questions. I would be concerned, too, if I was a parent who had a child that attended there, because there are chemicals involved, and it's scary when chemicals are involved."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.thevalleydispatch.com/ci_21739036/parents-want-answers- toxins-at-dracut-sports-center

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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