[CPEO-BIF] "New TCE detection on Buckley Road prompts another investigation, " San Luis Obispo , California

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

New TCE detection on Buckley Road prompts another investigation 

BY PETER JOHNSON
San Luis Obispo New Times (CA)
June 3, 2021

A new detection of the carcinogen TCE near the San Luis Obispo County Airport has prompted another investigation into its source, two years after regulators pinned the pollution on a nearby machine shop, which denied responsibility.

Recent soil gas samples taken by the SLO County Airport turned up high amounts of TCE at a property located next door to the known TCE groundwater plume, which officials had considered to be "ground zero" for the decades-old pollution in the Buckley Road area.

The newly detected TCE could not have come from the contaminated groundwater next door, according to the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board. That fact alone raised the question again of who really spilled the cancer-causing solvent, which has poisoned more than a dozen area wells.


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For the entire article, see
https://www.newtimesslo.com/sanluisobispo/new-tce-detection-on-buckley-road-prompts-another-investigation/Content?oid=11111612

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
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Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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