[CPEO-BIF] Another TCE site in Wake Forest, North Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

More Wake Forest homes with toxic TCE levels

By Eileen Park
NBC 17-TV News (Triangle Area, NC)
October 21, 2012

Today, the EPA has confirmed that five more homes in Wake Forest are  
contaminated with unacceptable levels of the cancer causing, TCE.

For Liz Allen and her husband, news that their home tested positive  
for TCE, was unsettling.

"We were hoping that we would be one of the people that perhaps  
passed, but we just found out today that it's above the safe levels  
for us to drink the water," Allen said. "We've been using the water  
for five months and when we were buying the house, we had no idea  
this was even an issue, that this was something we had to test for."


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For the entire article, see
http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2012/oct/21/more-wake-forest-homes-toxic- 
tce-levels-ar-2712167/

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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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