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Please join the Newtown Creek Alliance for a walking tour of the Meeker Ave. Contaminant Plumes where brownfields experts Lenny Siegel and Peter Strauss will be on hand to answer questions about hazardous vapor intrusion in homes, the health effects of TCE/PCE exposure, and how to get the Meeker Ave. Plumes mitigated and remediated.
Where & When:
Meet at the corner of Kingsland Ave. & Norman Ave. at 9:00am on Wednesday 11/19
For more information on the Meeker Ave. Contaminant Plumes please visit:
http://www.newtowncreekalliance.org/meeker.htm
About Lenny Siegel:
Lenny Siegel has been Executive Director of the Center for Public Environmental Oversight (formerly CAREER/PRO) since 1994. He has been director of the Pacific Studies Center, in Mountain View, since 1970. He is one of the environmental movement's leading experts on military facility contamination, and he has served on numerous advisory committees in that area. His organization runs Internet forums both on military environmental issues and brownfields. He is a member of several advisory committees, including the California Brownfields Revitalization Advisory Group, the Interstate Technology & Regulatory Council's work team on Perchlorate, and the Moffett Field (former Moffett Naval Air Station) Restoration Advisory Board. He has served on U.S. EPA's Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on All Appropriate Inquiry, the ASTM/ISR Steering Committee on Brownfields Restoration, and the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council Federal Facilities Working Group.
Where & When:
Meet at the corner of Kingsland Ave. & Norman Ave. at 9:00am on Wednesday 11/19
For more information on the Meeker Ave. Contaminant Plumes please visit:
http://www.newtowncreekalliance.org/meeker.htm
About Lenny Siegel:
Lenny Siegel has been Executive Director of the Center for Public Environmental Oversight (formerly CAREER/PRO) since 1994. He has been director of the Pacific Studies Center, in Mountain View, since 1970. He is one of the environmental movement's leading experts on military facility contamination, and he has served on numerous advisory committees in that area. His organization runs Internet forums both on military environmental issues and brownfields. He is a member of several advisory committees, including the California Brownfields Revitalization Advisory Group, the Interstate Technology & Regulatory Council's work team on Perchlorate, and the Moffett Field (former Moffett Naval Air Station) Restoration Advisory Board. He has served on U.S. EPA's Negotiated Rulemaking Committee on All Appropriate Inquiry, the ASTM/ISR Steering Committee on Brownfields Restoration, and the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council Federal Facilities Working Group.