What can a gas plume do to a nice neighborhood like this? Well, in the words of the EPA, the threat is something called “subsurface vapor intrusion,” a term that figures big in a big EPA document on the mess.
Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
EPA to Big Oil: Clean Up D.C. Neighborhood!
September 3, 2003 - Chevron’s got some cleaning-up to do in the city’s Lamond-Riggs neighborhood, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The agency released an order yesterday requiring the oil giant to take several steps to remediate a contaminated gas plume that leaked over time from a Chevron station in Chillium, Md., across the District line this quiet neighborhood in Northeast.
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