[CPEO-BIF] Vapor intrusion sampling at Boeing site, Algona, Washington

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

New concern with toxic chemical in Algona groundwater

By Gary Horcher
KIRO-TV News (Seattle, WA)
June 14, 2013

ALGONA, Wash. - Alvine Drayton thought the city of Algona would be  
the perfect place to move and raise her children. Now, she worries a  
toxic chemical vapor may be seeping into her home.

"I'm scared," Drayton said through tears, still weak from a severe  
illness that almost took her life four months ago."I just need to  
know, is it the chemical, a chemical I can't see, that was making me  
sick?"

Now, Boeing, and the State Department of Ecology are planning to test  
the air in Drayton's home, and almost two dozen of her Algona neighbors.



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For the entire story, see
http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/new-concern-toxic-chemical- 
groundwater-algona/nYLFf/

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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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