At an earlier EPA informational session, held Oct. Future Stars is now operating in Lowell.The problems in the complex, a former woolen and cotton mill that used the adjacent Beaver Brook to power its operations, were traced to a former Navy Yard Mills tenant, United Circuits Inc., that was housed at the site from 1971 to 2000. The circuit board manufacturer was cited by state environmental officials for contaminating the property with chemical solvents.Environmental health experts who have studied the data believe the risk to youths who used the Future Stars facilities is low. When the EPA shared its site assessment with him in August, Deschenes immediately made arrangements to move out of the complex, she said.
18 Board of Health meeting and at the Oct. That ruling granted EPA access to the site over the objections of the owner, Tucard LLC.At an Oct. My guess is most kids will never have a problem.”Still, many parents are outraged that they were not made aware early on of the presence of the toxic vapors at the site, given the fact that there was “a plethora of information regarding an environmental threat at the property,” according to a US District Court ruling issued Sept.
We want to make sure all of the issues in the long run are addressed as well.”Work is expected to continue for at least six months, O’Neil said. “We don’t want anyone to think that we wouldn’t have removed people from a building if there was an immediate threat, but we took care of what needed to be taken care of at the time. However, that work was not enough to earn the buildings a clean bill of health under the EPA’s new guidance levels, which were adopted in August.“This happens to be the first site where we’ve had to work with these numbers,” O’Neil said, adding that “our numbers are very, very conservative” given “the EPA’s mission to protect human health and the environment.”The EPA started its investigation of the Navy Yard Mills complex in October 2008 at the request of state environmental officials, who asked for federal assistance in analyzing the source contamination, O’Neil said.“The EPA took immediate action to seal off vapor intrusion pathways, which reduced the concentrations by 50 percent,” O’Neil said. When we did so, DEP came in and started working with us.”A site assessment prepared for Tucard by an environmental consultant in May 2005 and received by the state Department of Environmental Protection’s Northeast Regional Office on May 25, 2007, shows that tetrachloroethylene was present “in soil and ground water” at the 3.8-acre site and that trichloroethylene “was detected in indoor air” at levels that exceeded state guidelines.In that report, SAK Environmental, a North Andover consulting and engineering firm that specializes in responding to pollution issues, estimated it would cost $40,000 to $180,000 to address the environmental problems, depending on what remedial actions were required.Polak told selectmen that he and DiCarlo invested $600,000 to address the toxicity levels at the site.
That report will include risk calculations for tetrachloroethylene exposure.
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