[CPEO-BIF] Vapor testing at Varieur Elementary School, Pawtucket, Rhode Island

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Trace amounts of gas found at Varieur; no reason to close

Valley Breeze (RI)
August 26, 2014

PAWTUCKET - Officials from the Pawtucket School Department and the  
city of Pawtucket announced Tuesday that a series of tests for the  
gas trichloroethene (TCE) at Varieur Elementary School have  
demonstrated that TCE is not present in the school's air and that the  
school would not need to close.

School officials engaged Rhode Island Analytic Laboratories to  
perform indoor air quality testing after the completion of exterior  
soil gas testing by the Rhode Island Department of Environmental  
Management found trace amounts of the gas outside Varieur School,  
according to a news release. The indoor air quality test results,  
received at 5:18 p.m. Monday, came back negative for TCE.

The indoor air quality testing did indicate the presence of low  
concentrations of tetrachloroethene (PCE), a chemical common in many  
cleaning products. But DEM representatives said that elevated levels  
of the gas were not detected when recent soil gas tests were  
conducted around the perimeter of the school.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.valleybreeze.com/2014-08-26/pawtucket/trace-amounts-gas- 
found-varieur-no-reason-close

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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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