Hi Peter,

Now that is a horse of a different color! In the case of industrial
use, exposure doesn't include ingesting the stuff... unless you are
suicidal, I suppose.

But, in the case of contaminated ground water, the poor residents were
drinking the stuff on a continual basis. The same problem exists where
buried gasoline storage tanks leak into the ground water. Yet, gasoline
the king of carcinoma is in general and rather casual use.

Trichlor is a real problem for ground water. It is about twice as
dense as water, so if it hits the ground, it can travel anywhere water
can, only faster. Trichlor poured onto the ground always ends up in
the ground water.

Banning trichlor because it is a carcinogen in high doses, doesn't make
sense. It is too useful a solvent. Regulating its use and disposal is
what should have been done.

-Chuck Harris


Peter Gottlieb wrote:

Up in Woburn Mass there was a company that made production line machinery
for the pharmaceutical industry. They would sometimes take greasy gears out
back and clean them off with trich and dump the residue on the ground. Not
much, maybe 50 gallons over several years. Unfortunately, there was an
underground aquifer that ran there and led to a town well. In the
neighborhood the well fed, there was an extremely high incidence of leukemia
in children. Big time incidence. This was very real and a great tragedy
for many families.

I worked next door (Cummings Industrial Park) and used to watch the hazmat
crews digging the whole place up. We wouldn't drink the town water even
after they said it was cleaned up.

Just because your "casual research" doesn't come up with something doesn't
mean there isn't something there.

Peter