Monday, July 27, 2009

EPA sets plan for cleanup of toxic air in Mountain View's MEW Superfund site

July 24, 2009 - Twenty years after the Environmental Protection Agency came out with its first plan to clean up contaminants at Mountain View's "MEW" Superfund site, the agency has released its proposal to handle the latest problem caused by those contaminants: toxic vapor rising up into commercial buildings and residences.

The MEW site — bordered by East Middlefield Road, Ellis Street, North Whisman Road and Moffett Field — used to be home to industrial companies and government agencies such as the Navy. They used chemicals in their operations that still remain in the groundwater, primarily the solvent trichloroethene (TCE).

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