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>Those near National Priorities List Superfund sites (sites known to be contaminated with hazardous substances such as TCE) are at especially high risk of expos
by dralley 6y ago
>Those near National Priorities List Superfund sites (sites known to be contaminated with hazardous substances such as TCE) are at especially high risk of exposure. Santa Clara county, California, for example, is home not only to Silicon Valley, but 23 superfund sites – the highest concentration in the country. Google Quad Campus sits atop one such site; for several months in 2012 and 2013, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found employees of the company were inhaling unsafe levels of TCE in the form of toxic vapor rising up from the ground beneath their offices.
- ptudan 6y agoI used to play basketball on this campus all the time! Sheesh
- jeffbee 6y agoIt's not like this is Google-specific. Santa Clara County is just toxic. All of this junk, for example, is built on a plume of TCE. https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3823386,-121.9841579,458m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en https://www.google.com/maps/@37.3823386,-121.9841579,458m/da...
- outworlder 6y agoJust curious, what specifically are you pointing at? Is there any manufacturing going on? I'd think these are mostly office buildings.
- jeffbee 6y agoIt was semiconductor manufacturing before, then it was an empty lot, now its offices and parking. This would have been an orchard, 50 years ago.
- quantified 6y agoAnd to emphasize, semiconductor manufacturing has a lot of toxic chemistry along the way.