[CPEO-BIF] "Chemical Company To Test ABQ [Albuqueque, New Mexico] Homes For Toxins"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chemical Company To Test ABQ Homes For Toxins

By Ed Williams
KUNM Public Radio (NM)
November 5, 2015

A company that leaked toxic dry cleaning chemicals into the groundwater near downtown Albuquerque is planning to test the air in nearby homes to see if the chemicals pose a health risk to people living on top of the contamination. 

The New Mexico Environment Department discovered the plume of Trichloroethylene, or TCE, in the 1990’s. TCE is a poisonous chemical that can evaporate underground and rise as gas into homes and buildings. But no testing of homes on top of the mile and a half long plume of contamination has taken place, and no final cleanup strategy has been developed.

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For the entire story, see
http://kunm.org/post/chemical-company-test-abq-homes-toxins#stream/0

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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