[CPEO-BIF] Vapor intrusion at proposed Bainbridge, Washington police station site

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contaminated soil found on proposed Bainbridge police station site far exceeds air quality standards

by BRIAN KELLY
Bainbridge Island Review (WA) 
October 14, 2015

Tests done on the proposed location for the city of Bainbridge Island's new police/court building on Madison Avenue found not only polluted soils from the former dry cleaning business that was located on the property but vapors from dry cleaning solvents that far exceeded the state Department of Ecology's risk screening levels for harmful vapors.

City officials announced Tuesday that the property Bainbridge hopes to use for a multi-million dollar police and municipal court building was so contaminated that groundwater on the site may also be polluted. The property at 290 Madison Ave. North is currently home to a laundromat, but in years past once housed a dry cleaning business.

Tests conducted in September by the consultant firm of Environmental Associates, Inc. of Bellevue found PCE (Tetrachloroethen) and TCE (Trichloroethene) - both chlorinated dry-cleaning solvents - on the property.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bainbridgereview.com/news/332971361.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
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LSiegel@cpeo.org
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