[CPEO-BIF] High TCE levels delay Mountain View, California housing project

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

TCE discovery halts Fairchild Drive housing project

by Mark Noack
Mountain View Voice (CA)
August 18, 2017

An approved project to build a 26 row-houses at 277 Fairchild Drive is being delayed by officials with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency after they discovered the site's soil exceeded safety levels for trichloroethylene (TCE). 

Representatives for the developer, Warmington Fairchild Associates LLC, say they will clean up the soil contamination over the coming months before proceeding with construction. 

Dozens of samples taken last year at the property showed TCE levels that exceeded the EPA's safety levels. The agency defines unsafe TCE levels as exceeding 20,000 micrograms per cubic meter. Samples from the site had levels as high as 410,000 micrograms per cubic meter.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.mv-voice.com/news/2017/08/18/tce-discovery-halts-fairchild-drive-housing-project

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
Voice/Fax: 650/961-8918 
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org

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