Excerpt from the Springfield News-Leader, April 29, 2017. Read the full article here.
Crews might test the air in some northwest Springfield homes this summer as they work to clean up a contaminated industrial site.
Marc Weinreich, vice president of the Greenfield Environmental Trust Group, said at a public meeting earlier this year that his group will likely partner with the Missouri Department of Natural Resources this summer to test for air pollution in some people's homes near the old Kerr-McGee railroad tie plant at 2800 W. High St.
Officials with the multistate trust are concerned about gases coming up from the polluted groundwater and entering people's homes through a process called vapor intrusion.
In December, the multistate trust collected soil-gas samples in the neighborhood directly northeast of the old Kerr-McGee site.
Weinreich said the amount of chemicals in some of those samples slightly exceeded the regional screening levels for the area, and the multistate trust might need to do some further investigation.