June 7, 2009 - Few Burlingtonians may remember Park Cleaners, a dry-cleaning business run out of the old Blinn House on 151 South Champlain St. in 1958.
The business lasted only one year at the site, but its brief time there was long enough to create a troublesome underground chemical contamination plume that today stretches from the aging, paint-chipped building almost to the shores of Lake Champlain.
The culprit: tetrachloroethylene, or PCE for short, a chemical widely used by dry cleaners and apparently discharged into the soil by Park Cleaners’ employees. The chemical can cause headaches and dizziness in the short term and, potentially, cancer later on.
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1 comment:
It's more likely that the widespread PCE contamination was caused by chemicals from an old dumpsite rather than one dry cleaners open for one year in 1958.
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