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Lenny Siegel, executive director of the Center for Public Environmental Oversight, warned residents about the possibility of toxic vapor intrusion into their homes and recommended they push officials to put the former Foster Wheeler site in Crestwood Industrial Park on the national Superfund list.
Contamination of trichloroethylene, which studies show probably causes cancer, was identified in the late 1980s and treated at the pressure boiler-manufacturing plant that stopped production in 1984. But the degreasing chemical wasn't noticed in several dozen residential wells along Church Road until the company stumbled across it during tests in 2004.
A U.S. Environmental Protection Agency official recently said those homes should have been tested 20 years ago.
Siegel said he has been working on TCE contamination in his town of Mountain View, Calif., for nearly 30 years. He has been meeting with people in communities across the country that are facing similar problems.
Siegel said EPA officials told him the Foster Wheeler site is of "Superfund caliber." Superfund is the federal government's program to clean up the nation's uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.
Sally Martin, of the Church Road residents group, said EPA officials recently talked about a "Superfund alternative" that would involve an agreement with Foster Wheeler.
Siegel advised the group to reject a Superfund alternative "unless they can offer you an alternative technical assistance grant." The Superfund program provides funding to nonprofit community groups to hire an independent technical consultant.
"The community really needs their own technical consultant because it's really hard to trust the regulatory agencies and it's extremely hard to trust the polluters," Siegel said.
Siegel also talked about "vapor intrusion," in which TCE rises through the ground in gaseous form and enters a home through the basement. Vapors can be "sucked in" when the air pressure in a home is lower than that in the ground, especially during home heating season, he said.
Siegel said many people don't trust government models used to predict the likelihood of vapor intrusion. He said community groups recommend indoor air testing to rule out the threat.
Martin said the resident group will meet with representatives from local legislators' offices to discuss the next course of action.
Sally Martin, of the Church Road residents group, said EPA officials recently talked about a "Superfund alternative" that would involve an agreement with Foster Wheeler.
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