[CPEO-BIF] "Community Within the Corridor [Milwaukee, Wisconsin] can safely reopen two years after TCE detection"

[Lenny Siegel <Lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Community Within the Corridor can safely reopen two years after TCE detection

By Jenna Wells
CBS 58 News (Milwaukee, WI)
May 29, 202

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) — Part of a large affordable housing complex on Milwaukee's near west side will reopen soon, after toxic chemicals levels forced tenants out of their apartments more than two years ago.

Community Within the Corridor's developers say it's now safe for residents to move into the east block of the building after remediation for trichloroethylene, abbreviated as TCE.

"The measures that were put in place ensures that nothing like that will happen again on this site," said Que El-Amin, president of Scott Crawford, Inc., the building's developers.

Less than one year after El-Amin opened Community Within the Corridor in 2022, the DNR found high levels of TCE in the soil beneath the building, which can turn into vapor.

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For the entire story, see
https://www.cbs58.com/news/community-within-the-corridor-can-safely-reopen-two-years-after-tce-detection

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