Chrysler Corporation agreed to clean up only a portion of residences with contaminated groundwater seeping up in their homes.
Dee Lewis on Nov 19th 2007
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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