By Ryan Justin Fox

Dayton Daily News (OH)

November 16, 2007

DAYTON – Environmental officials broke the news to close to a hundred

residents at Kiser Middle School Thursday that Chrysler Corporation

agreed to clean up only a portion of residences with contaminated

groundwater seeping up in their homes.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said that it will use available

taxpayer funds to cover the other 200 potentially-contaminated homes in

the eastern portion of the McCook Field neighborhood.

EPA officials found dangerously-high levels of trichloroethylene (TCE)

in homes and schools in the immediate vicinity of Behr Dayton Thermal

Products plant at 1600 Webster Street last year.

Environmental officials said that the chemical – which used to be used

as a degreaser and a cleaner – seeped into soil and groundwater after a

spill and is now vaporizing into harmful air in residences.

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