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    <title>Exposure to high levels of TCE could increase risk of Parkinson’s disease by 70%</title>
    <dc:date>2023-05-24T10:39:24+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The risk of developing Parkinson’s disease later in life could be increased by up to 70% by drinking water contaminated with the industrial solvent, trichloroethylene (TCE). The researchers said it was, to their knowledge, the first study to assess the association of Parkinson’s disease and exposure to a TCE-contaminated water supply, in a large, population-based cohort.

The study investigated whether the risk of Parkinson’s disease was raised in veterans who served at Camp Lejeune in North Carolina for at least three months between 1975 and 1985. The water supply to the base was contaminated with high levels of TCE, and several other volatile organic compounds (VOC), by leaking underground storage tanks, industrial spills, waste disposal sites and an off-base dry-cleaning business. The authors note that TCE and the related compound tetrachloroethylene are present in up to one-third of US drinking water supplies.


Trichloroethylene
According to the researchers, between 1975 and 1985, the estimated monthly median TCE level in the water supply at Camp Lejeune was 366μg/l, more than 70 times the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) maximum contaminant level (MCL) of 5μg/l. Maximum contaminant levels were also exceeded for tetrachloroethylene and vinyl chloride during that time period.

Health data from 84,824 of these veterans was compared against the data of 73,298 veterans who had been based at a non-contaminated site. Overall, a total of 430 veterans had Parkinson’s disease; 279 from Camp Lejeune and 151 from the control group. The researchers calculated that the risk of Parkinson’s disease was 70% higher in Camp Lejeune veterans compared with the control group.

Among veterans without Parkinson’s disease, residence at Camp Lejeune was associated with a higher risk of several clinical diagnoses that are well-established early warnings for the condition, such as erectile dysfunction and anxiety.

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    <title>US EPA finds new risks for 3 solvents: methylene chloride, N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP), and perchloroethylene</title>
    <dc:date>2022-07-07T09:45:27+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Three common solvents—methylene chloride, N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP), and perchloroethylene—pose unreasonable risks to human health under multiple use scenarios, the US Environmental Protection Agency concludes in separate draft risk evaluations released within days of each other.
The assessments replace previous ones finalized under the Donald J. Trump administration. They incorporate changes announced a year ago to the way the EPA evaluates the risks of high-priority chemicals in the US marketplace. The EPA says it made the changes to ensure its risk assessments are science-based and legally defensible.
The three solvents are among the first 10 chemicals the EPA is evaluating under the 2016 revisions to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The agency is updating assessments for all 10 chemicals to reflect the policy changes.
The changes include no longer assuming workers wear personal protective equipment. For each of the three solvents, eliminating that assumption resulted in a slight increase in the number of uses with unreasonable risks. The EPA found five additional uses with unreasonable risks for methylene chloride, three for NMP, and one for perchloroethylene. The agency will address those and dozens of other uses that have unreasonable risks as it considers risk management options for the three solvents over the next few years.
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    <title>Greenburgh shopping center demands $360,000 from tenant for chemical cleanup</title>
    <dc:date>2021-12-31T11:17:51+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A Greenburgh shopping center is demanding nearly $360,000 from a former dry cleaning tenant to cover the costs of an environmental cleanup caused by a hazardous chemical spill.

Greenburgh Shopping Center Associates is demanding that Youn Do Hwang, the operator of Deb-Rich Cleaners, be held responsible for the cleanup under the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, in a complaint filed Dec. 20 in U.S. District Court, White Plains.

Debrich Cleaners Inc. was formed in 1970 by Jacob Rabinowitz, according to a state corporations record. In 1992, Debrich assigned the Deb-Rich Cleaners lease for 91 Knollwood Road to Hwang.

The lease required Hwang to cover the costs of waste disposal and nonstructural maintenance and repairs, according to the complaint. He agreed to assume responsibility for any damages to the property and to obtain $500,000 in liability insurance.

Hwang decided to close the business last year, and he allegedly hired an unincorporated, unregistered, unlicensed and uninsured contractor — Marcelo, doing business as N.Y.C. Scrap Metal Pickup — to remove property from the store.

As the work was being done on Dec. 1, 2020, Perc spilled inside the store, the complaint states, and seeped below the floor and into the soil beneath the building.

Perc, also known as perchloroethylene or tetrachloroethylene, is classified as a hazardous chemical that can affect the central nervous system and other organs.

The landlord says it responded immediately when it learned of the spill, hiring CA Rich Consultants to assess the extent of the chemical exposure and begin the cleanup and Emergi-Clean Inc. to remove contaminated soil and water.

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    <dc:date>2020-04-29T12:17:38+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Achemical widely used as a solvent in dry cleaning, degreasing industrial equipment, and production of fluorinated refrigerants poses unreasonable health risks to workers and consumers, the US Environmental Protection Agency says in a draft assessment released on April 27. The chemical, perchloroethylene or perc, is associated with acute neurotoxic effects and poses long-term risks of cancer and neurological, kidney, liver, immune, and developmental effects, the agency finds.

The EPA emphasizes that the evaluation is only a draft and any risks found, including those associated with dry cleaning, “are preliminary and do not require any action at this time.” The agency claims that the use of perchloroethylene in dry cleaning has been decreasing as facilities shift to new technologies and safer alternatives. Even so, the Halogenated Solvents Industry Alliance, an industry group, estimated in a 2017 letter to the EPA that 70% of dry cleaners use the solvent because it is nonflammable.

The EPA evaluated short- and long-term inhalation and dermal exposures to perchloroethylene in workers and consumers. For workers, the agency found unreasonable risks—primarily neurological effects—for nearly all evaluated uses when personal protective equipment was not used. The agency did not find such risks for workers who use perchloroethylene in a laboratory setting. For consumers, the EPA found risks of neurological effects associated with skin exposure to clothes cleaned with perchloroethylene.

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    <title>EPA Investigates Contaminated Soil in Burlington's Old North End</title>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is investigating soil vapors in the Old North End in Burlington after elevated levels of chemicals were detected in a home.

In July, testing at a house on the northern part of Elmwood Avenue revealed two chemicals at levels above federal limits, according to Michael Nahmias, an environmental analyst for the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation. The department has not yet found the source, he added. 

The chemicals are known as perchloroethylene (PCE) and trichloroethylene (TCE). PCE and TCE are commonly used for dry cleaning and can also be found in cleaning products and grease removers. The neighborhood was formerly home to two dry-cleaning businesses.

Exposure can cause nausea, vomiting, dizziness and irritation, according to the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Longterm exposure to PCE can lead to changes in memory and mood, and potentially to cancer.]]></description>
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    <title>State moves to tighten rules on dry cleaning chemicals</title>
    <dc:date>2017-05-13T13:07:06+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The state is proposing changes to rules for dry cleaners for the first time in 20 years that are aimed at reducing potential leaks of a carcinogenic dry cleaning chemical.
Rules proposed by the state Department of Environmental Conservation target the use of perchloroethylene (PCE, also known as "perc"), a cleaning solvent that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said can cause cancer. The rules would build on federal requirements that older dry cleaning machines that use PCE no longer be used after December 2021.
Dry cleaners that use perc in newer, so-called "fourth generation" machines will have to perform regular monthly leak tests and immediately repair or replace machines that don't pass.
The chemical is used at more than 2,000 dry cleaners across the state. The latest model perc-based machines with tighter emission controls can cost between $32,000 and $100,000 depending on the size.
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    <title>New York Introduces Household Chemical Disclosure Requirement</title>
    <dc:date>2017-04-26T11:19:13+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ALBANY - New York plans to require manufacturers of home cleaning products to make a complete detailing of their ingredients to consumers through the companies' websites, the state said Tuesday.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the "Household Cleaning Product Information Disclosure Program" is a health initiative he first promised in his 2017 State of the State message earlier this year. The state-mandated disclosure would be the first imposed such program in the country, he said.
Also Tuesday, Cuomo said the state Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) plans to impose stricter limits on the permissible release into the atmosphere of perchloroethylene and other dry-cleaning solvents, which would bring the discharges into line with current federal requirements. According to the DEC, perchloroethylene is a suspected human carcinogen.
The state standards went into effect in 1997, and officials said the standards have not kept pace with improvements in dry-cleaning technology and in the introduction of effective, less-powerful solvents.
Cuomo said in a statement that the combination of household cleaning supply disclosure and lessened discharges of solvents from professional dry-cleaning establishments will "help protect New Yorkers and give them the peace of mind of knowing what's in their homes and in their communities."
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    <title>Vermont office workers get new home after toxic scare</title>
    <dc:date>2017-04-18T19:19:34+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) - Vermont has reached an agreement on new offices for nearly 80 state employees who were displaced from their building earlier this month because of elevated levels of cancer-causing chemicals in the air.

The Caledonian Record reports Tuesday that the former microDATA building in St. Johnsbury has been chosen. Vermont Department of Buildings and General Services Commissioner Chris Cole said the state signed a five-year lease for the building.

About 85 state Human Services employees were moved earlier this month. Test results found that PCE and TCE were present above levels of concern in two of the three buildings, while chloroform was present slightly above a level of concern in one of the two buildings.

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    <title>Green group highlights 10 chemicals for EPA regulation</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-22T09:38:12+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A green advocacy group is highlighting ten toxic chemicals it wants the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate under new broad powers.

Topping the Environmental Working Group’s list is asbestos, a cancer-causing substance still found in automobile brake pads and clutches, vinyl tiles and roofing materials.

The other nine chemicals the group lists include PERC – a probable carcinogen that appears in dry-cleaning fluid, spot removers and water repellants; phthalate chemicals in PVC plastics, toys and plastic wrap linked to early puberty in girls; and BPA found in food cans, food containers and cash register receipts that is linked to infertility and diabetes.
“After decades of stagnation, EPA can now ban or restrict the use of toxic chemicals and order companies to conduct safety testing when more information is needed,” EWG Senior Scientist David Andrews said in a statement. "It's important that the agency act promptly to eliminate or reduce Americans' exposure to industrial compounds linked to cancer, birth defects, hormone disruption and other health problems."

In June, Obama signed an overhaul of the nation’s chemical safety laws into law that lawmakers had been fighting years for. The legislation gives EPA the authority to test and regulate chemicals already in the marketplace, as well as new substances.]]></description>
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    <title>State plans cleanup of chemical spill in Vegas neighborhood</title>
    <dc:date>2016-07-04T10:56:42+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[LAS VEGAS (AP) - State officials who monitor chemical contamination at 40 sites in southern Nevada are now preparing for a large-scale cleanup at one that stemmed from a spill at a dry-cleaning shop more than three decades ago.
More than 200 homes sit atop a plume created years ago at a dry-cleaning operation, The Las Vegas Sun reported (http://bit.ly/29F2AWA). The cancer-causing chemical bled into groundwater after the spill in 1982, and officials say the plume now stretches more than a mile long. In some areas, PCE evaporated and turned into a gas, seeping into the air inside of homes.
The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection is working to begin extracting the perchloroethylene, or PCE, by spring of 2017. Recently, workers have installed mitigating systems to keep the chemical out of homes.]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2016-06-23T11:22:07+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>https://lasvegassun.com/news/2016/jun/22/massive-chemical-plume-in-central-las-vegas-to-soo/</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Donna Castaneda is one of several residents in the area who wakes up each day to the fact that Paradise Palms has changed, in unseen ways that occurred below its surface. In the corner of her bedroom closet, next to her hangers, is a tube that runs from the floor to the roof, a system designed to protect her from chemicals that accumulated underneath her home.

More than 200 homes in Paradise Palms sit atop a plume created years ago by chemical spills a half-mile away at a dry-cleaning operation at the former Maryland Square Shopping Center, at Maryland Parkway and Twain Avenue. A dry-cleaning liquid known as perchloroethylene, or PCE, fortunately missed the valley’s drinking water. But the chemical bled into the groundwater, forming a plume over time that now stretches more than a mile long. The contaminated groundwater ranges from about 400 to 1,000 feet in width, and runs up to 70 feet deep in some areas. In some areas, PCE evaporated and turned into a gas, seeping into the air inside of homes.

Maryland Square is not alone. The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection keeps tabs on 40 PCE contaminations from North Las Vegas to Henderson. In most cases, the agency is confident that the chemical, a likely carcinogen that can cause health issues with long-term exposure, poses little immediate health risk to these areas.

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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Workers and patrons at the Jasmine Plaza on Route 114 had a bit of a scare Friday when a hazmat crew showed up.
Friday morning at just before 9 a.m., people in the plaza smelled a peculiar odor and called the North Andover Fire Department. The plaza was evacuated for about four hours while firefighters examined the scene and cleared out the air.
The smell turned out to be a broken dry cleaning machine at Silver Cleaners that was leaking tetrachloroethylene, a chemical used in dry cleaning fluid that, if breathed in for an extended time, can cause illness. At Silver Cleaners, the chemical leaked out of the machine and gathered on the floor beneath it.
"In large quantities, you wouldn't want to be breathing that in," North Andover Deputy Fire Chief Bill McCarthy said. "It causes dizziness, light-headedness, and in larger quantities it can be much more harmful."
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    <title>Dry cleaning chemical contaminates Unity wells.</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-11T13:21:05+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[UNITY – Investigators from the state’s Department of Natural Resources are asking residents here for permission to test their water wells this week to determine if a dry-cleaning chemical is present.

The DNR will test the water in private wells for tetrachloroethylene, a chemical used widely by the dry cleaning industry in the 1970s. The chemical has been found in four private wells on the north side of this small town that straddles the boundary between Marathon and Clark counties between Colby and Spencer.

Those who have already been found to have unsafe wells are being provided bottled water, according to a DNR media release. Officials from the Marathon County and Clark County health departments also have been notified.

Tetrachloroethylene is a nonflammable liquid solvent that, in addition to dry cleaning, is used for wood processing, fabric manufacturing and metal degreasing, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

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    <title>Chemical that caused Clovelly Park evacuation found in vapour form at Hendon child care centre</title>
    <dc:date>2014-08-06T11:20:31+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/national/chemical-that-caused-clovelly-park-evacuation-found-in-vapour-form-at-hendon-child-care-centre/story-fnii5yv7-1227014092306?nk=eb7f427741a11bb166b9fd7ddd4fab56</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[TOXIC chemicals found in groundwater at Hendon and vapours seeping into a child care centre pose “no risk” according to officials, but they will conduct further testing.

More than 3000 residents in the Hendon/Albert Park/Seaton/Royal Park area are being alerted today by a letterbox drop that the same chemical which caused the evacuation of part of Clovelly Park has been found in groundwater and in vapour in the crawl space beneath a child care centre.

SEE A MAP OF THE AFFECTED AREA HERE

A press conference detailing the situation was held this afternoon, but The Advertiser has independently learned the tests show trichloroethene (TCE) as well as perchloroethene (PCE) and dichloroethene (DCE) in the groundwater.

The vapours detected in the crawl space at the child care centre warrant further indoor air sampling, but will not cause the centre to shut even temporarily, according to the Environment Protection Authority.

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    <dc:date>2014-06-18T11:22:33+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A small dry cleaning business was evacuated Tuesday in Pandosy Village after a machine leaked a toxic chemical.

Platoon Captain Dale Calhoun says a mechanic was working on a dry cleaner at 'Quality Cleaners' located in the Southgate strip mall when 12-litres of Tetrachloroethylene (also known as Perc) leaked from the machine.

“We received a called from Stutters that was here to clean-up some product that had leaked out of a dry-cleaning machine and what we found was that the product that had spilt, melted some plastic and got onto some carpet,” explains Calhoun.

Trained fire and hazmat crews attended and taped off the alley behind the business to vent the chemicals while business fronts remained open and unaffected.]]></description>
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    <title>South Mpls. dry cleaner leaking chemicals near day-care center</title>
    <dc:date>2014-06-07T12:15:20+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A south Minneapolis dry cleaner leaking hazardous chemicals into a strip mall that includes a day-care center is under scrutiny from regulators threatening to take action if the contamination isn’t stopped.

State regulators this spring found that the air in several businesses at the mall at 47th Street and Hiawatha Avenue S. contained high levels of perchloroethylene, known as perc, after initially discovering it in the underlying soil. An attempt to suck the gas from the soil failed to mitigate the problem, revealing that the machines in U.S. Cleaners were polluting the air.

Perc has historically been used for dry cleaning but is being phased out because of the adverse health effects. The city’s Health Department learned of the problem a week ago and encouraged the owner to properly seal the store and the equipment, which it may shut down if the problem can’t be fixed.

“We don’t want children exposed,” said the city’s environmental health director, Dan Huff, adding that officials are pleased with the owner’s response. “We want to minimize their exposure as much as possible.”]]></description>
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    <title>Cancer-causing chemical PCE contaminates Colorado soil, water and homes</title>
    <dc:date>2014-02-09T13:05:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.denverpost.com/environment/ci_25095832/cancer-causing-pce-contaminating-colorado-soil-water-homes</link>
    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Spills releasing PCE, the cancer-causing chemical used in dry cleaning and metal degreasing, have produced at least 86 underground plumes across Colorado that are poisoning soil and water and fouling air inside buildings.

Cleaning up this chemical is a nightmare — a lesson in the limits of repairing environmental harm. The best that Colorado health enforcers and responsible parties have been able to do is keep the PCE they know about from reaching people.

But based on a review of Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment case files, people likely have been exposed.

For years, PCE (perchloroethylene or perc) penetrated homes and a church in Denver's Cole neighborhood, forcing installation of ventilators. It contaminated municipal drinking water wells near Colorado Springs. It reached rooms where toddlers play at an Aurora day care. And PCE is spreading under a central Denver Safeway at levels far exceeding health standards.

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    <title>Hazardous chemical spilled in 18-wheeler crash on I-10</title>
    <dc:date>2012-03-07T12:54:46+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[An 18-wheeler hauling a flammable and potentially hazardous chemical has overturned in the westbound lanes of Interstate 10. The accident site is near the downtown Beaumont exit.

Beaumont Fire Captain Earl White said that the driver picked up a load of tetrachloroethylene (also known as perchloroethylene or perc) from Lake Charles, La.

Approximately 20 gallons of the chemical has been contained by Beaumont Hazmat, but it is the responsibility of the trucking company to clean up the spill, said Officer Carol Riley with Beaumont Police Department.]]></description>
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    <title>Fire hits dry cleaning factory in Basingstoke</title>
    <dc:date>2012-01-26T12:28:46+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[A dry cleaning factory in Basingstoke has been damaged after a fire broke out on the premises yesterday (25thJanuary).

Fire crews were called to Johnsons Apparelmaster on the West Ham Industrial Estate at 10.30am to tackle a blaze which began in one of the industrial cleaning machines, reports the Basingstoke Gazette.

Sixteen firefighters attended the incident and had to wear special gas pipe suits to enter the building due to the presence of the potentially harmful perchloroethylene chemical.

Watch manager John Amos told The Gazette: "The fire itself was not particularly serious, but the problem is that the chemicals that they use in dry cleaning, when combined with fire, produce phosgene gas.

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    <title>Houses giving off toxic fumes - Sacramento Politics - California Politics | Sacramento Bee</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-08T12:36:54+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>dchas</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Dangerous vapors in houses near two former Modesto dry cleaners triggered notices from state overseers to local public health officials.

Some occupants say technicians indicated that levels of PCE detected in their homes were no big deal. These people appeared surprised that the state's formal letter to Stanislaus County leaders suggests otherwise, and said they received no formal notice.

"There is reason to believe that the illegal discharges are likely to cause substantial injury to the public health," reads the letter from Michael Vivas, project manager with the state's Department of Toxic Substances Control to county officials, dated Dec. 22.

Although 14 current or former Modesto dry cleaners have polluted groundwater, high concentrations in soil samples at two prompted state officials to request "emergency" action by the federal Environmental Protection Agency. Airborne perchloroethylene, or PCE, showed up in levels exceeding the state's limit in all 13 houses tested in May.

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