oakcreekrenter
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http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-toxic-risk-20110930,0,1063431.story
I was living in Mountain View in 2001 when the draft assessment came out, and knew some friends who had bought brand new town homes above a TCE plume from an old HP/IBM silicon factory. The EPA had to hold town meetings to assure people that it was just a preliminary finding. For a few months, there were a fair number of people selling and moving out of the neighborhood, before people forgot about it or it stopped being news.
Now that the EPA has made it final, wonder what it does for homes above contaminated sites in Irvine. I know there is one plume under Woodbridge that has been discussed to death. Would you buy a home above a known TCE plume? I wouldn't. I just passed on a Northpark home that my wife and I LOVED that turned out to have mold, and I think mold would be easier to address than possible TCE exposure.
I was living in Mountain View in 2001 when the draft assessment came out, and knew some friends who had bought brand new town homes above a TCE plume from an old HP/IBM silicon factory. The EPA had to hold town meetings to assure people that it was just a preliminary finding. For a few months, there were a fair number of people selling and moving out of the neighborhood, before people forgot about it or it stopped being news.
Now that the EPA has made it final, wonder what it does for homes above contaminated sites in Irvine. I know there is one plume under Woodbridge that has been discussed to death. Would you buy a home above a known TCE plume? I wouldn't. I just passed on a Northpark home that my wife and I LOVED that turned out to have mold, and I think mold would be easier to address than possible TCE exposure.