Monday, August 24, 2009

Ithaca, NY Neighborhood Pushing for Pollution Cleanup

August 24, 2009- The president of the South Hill Civic Association is pleading with city leaders for more help in the fight to rid South Hill of toxic pollution.

Association president John Graves said he lives half-a-block from the Columbia Street manhole that registered highest for toxic vapors such as trichloroethylene (TCE) in 2007 testing by Emerson Power Transmission. Yet almost two years later, Graves said that neither he nor any of his neighbors have been contacted to have their houses tested for potential contamination.

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