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This is scary. I've never heard of this chemical but it looks like something I likely come in contact with almost daily.
by zoklet-enjoyer 4y ago
This is scary. I've never heard of this chemical but it looks like something I likely come in contact with almost daily.
- dboreham 4y agoHopefully not so much these days. Those of us who worked in the Electronics industry in the 1980s did come into contact daily.
- jrmski 4y agoIndeed, one of Google's campuses in Mountain View has (or at least had) TCE vapor leftover from previous industry. https://www.theverge.com/2013/2/22/4018768/tce-vapors-found-in-google-mountain-view-office https://www.theverge.com/2013/2/22/4018768/tce-vapors-found-...
- hammock 4y agoThe entire city of Mountain View is literally one giant EPA Superfund site (look it up) and I wouldn’t go near any of those beautiful creeks they have running around or play in the soil…
- uejfiweun 4y agoI just did look it up and I’d seems the superfund area is just a 17 acre zone around a trailer park?
- hammock 4y agoThere are at least eight different sites in Mountain View https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-you-live https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-y... Separately, there are many orgs which track and map the TCE plumes in the groundwater and you can find that info as well through google
- akiselev 4y agoNote that the map only shows National Priority List sites. They're considered to be the most polluted but that doesn't mean that sites not on the NPL list aren't also a concern (my county only has one NPL site but over a dozen non-NPL contaminated areas)
- inferiorhuman 4y agoIt's not just Mountain View. All of Silicon Valley is dotted with superfund sites. Years ago IBM got sued by former employees about exposure to carcinogens at their San Jose factories. IBM won, but, yeah, I'd still be careful. And then there's the military waste…
- hammock 4y agoYes good point about the military waste. Hunters Point in SF comes to mind. A highly contaminated radioactive site that required extensive soil remediation. A lot of the radioactive soil was just sent to regular state landfills. Then after they had started building multi family homes on top of the site, they found out the cleanup company was falsifying soil samples and the site was still highly radioactive. I hope that situation is not typical of how Superfund sites are handled
- inferiorhuman 4y agoWhat Lennar did in BVHP ought to be criminal. Treasure Island (also an ex-military Superfund site) is a mess of radioactive waste on its way to becoming luxury condos as well. Oh well, it will be a fun cancer cluster in a couple decades. AMD, Intel, Fairchild, IBM, HP, Nat Semi, Raytheon, Teledyne, Westinghouse, and LLNL all gifted the Bay Area with Superfund sites with most concentrated in Santa Clara county. Even stuff that doesn't rise to the level of a Superfund site can still be far too polluted to develop (e.g. Brisbane).
- nraynaud 4y agoThat’s what used to run in parts cleaners until a few decades ago, so all body shops, mechanics, job shops and a ton of factories had those.
- myself248 4y agoReally? My dad's parts cleaner always had gasoline in it.
- scotty79 4y agoI remeber it being available on the shelves in my childhood. It's also narcotic and carcinogenic. Banned in EU since 2010.