[CPEO-BIF] NCR site, Oakwood, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel]

EPA plans drilling tests at former NCR site to determine if harmful 
vapors exist

By Steve Bennish
Dayton Daily News (OH)
October 20, 2006

DAYTON — The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency plans to test for 
groundwater pollution by December to determine if there are harmful 
vapors that could threaten workers at a former NCR Corp. office building 
or residents in the nearby Rubicon Mill neighborhood.

The testing, which involves using a drilling rig, is needed because 
groundwater monitoring wells turned up contamination from volatile 
organic compounds, likely solvents left over from NCR manufacturing 
operations decades ago, said Joseph Smindak, senior site coordinator for 
the OEPA.

NCR, which sold the office building this year to Cox Ohio Publishing, 
the parent company of the Dayton Daily News, says the readings aren't 
high enough to pose a hazard.

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
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