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MILWAUKEE APARTMENT EVACUATED, TCE CHEMICAL, DNR ISSUES EMERGENCY ORDER

By Madalyn O'Neill
Published April 5, 2023 7:41PM
Updated 10:15PM
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MILWAUKEE APARTMENT EVACUATED, TCE CHEMICAL, DNR ISSUES EMERGENCY ORDER

A Marquette University chemistry professor said careful TCE vapor monitoring and
mitigation will need to continue at the "Community Within the Corridor"
apartment building as long as people live there.

MILWAUKEE - With no end in sight for evacuated residents, tests are still
finding high concentrations of a dangerous chemical at Milwaukee's "Community
Within the Corridor" apartments.

CWC developers must keep the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in the
loop or face prosecution.




The DNR said CWC didn’t tell them the building was occupied until right before
more than 150 residents had to be evacuated because of high levels of TCE. Now,
they’ve issued an emergency order requiring developers to submit documents to
the DNR about how they’re addressing the chemical hazard, adding that it's an
order enforceable through prosecution by the attorney general.

TCE is often used as a degreaser, and at one time, was also used as an
anesthetic. Its negative health consequences when inhaled have since become
known.



Perhaps the best place to learn about chemicals like TCE and safety measures is
a place people work with chemicals daily.

"We’re making sure we’re not getting exposed to (a chemical) for long periods of
time," said Joe Clark, Marquette University assistant professor of chemistry.



Clark knows you have to keep an eye on what you can’t see.

"We have air that’s constantly being replaced in here, and same with here," said
Clark.

He said when it comes to safety around chemicals like TCE, ventilation is a key
part of the formula.

Clark said that TCE usually leaves your body after about a day once you’re away
from it, but it can have long-term health effects, especially for pregnant women
and their unborn children.

"That’s something we need to be very conscious of, just in this laboratory,"
said Clark.

Monitoring TCE levels is critical where people live, too.

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Community Within the Corridor closed due to chemical hazard

"If you build a structure on top of an area that’s contaminated with TCE, then
you can expect for sure that TCE is for sure going to be coming up into that
building," said Clark.

That’s what testing has found at the east block of the "Community Within the
Corridor" apartment building. Mitigation systems can prevent high levels of TCE
vapor, but the systems at CWC's building haven’t been able to keep TCE at what’s
considered safe levels by the DNR, 2.1 micrograms per cubic meter (ug/m3).

An April report from CWC partners sent to the DNR said that as of April 1, 100
samples in the building were tested for TCE, and the first floor is the most
impacted. In one unit, TCE levels were found at 350 ug/m3. It also says that a
test of a hole in the wall of one unit detected TCE at 8,000 ug/m3.

The report, written by KSingh, says the main cause has been identified as
pathways for vapors to move through holes and cracks and an ineffective
mitigation system.

"The main cause of the problem has been identified. Preferential pathways for
vapors to move upward through the void space, holes in the floor, and minor
cracks in the column are identified," the memo said. "Vapor mitigation system is
not very effective because of the presence of water in the knockout drums for
the blowers and because of the water in the piping system of the vapor
mitigation system."

The DNR is monitoring CWC, as well, issuing an emergency order requiring them to
submit documentation of their immediate actions and their outcomes.

Community Within the Corridor closed due to chemical hazard

"There’s definitely a way for engineers to make it possible to be monitoring,
‘is the airflow proper?’" said Clark.

At the lab, Clark said careful TCE vapor monitoring and mitigation will need to
continue at the apartment building as long as people live there.

"As long as that building stands there, for sure, the TCE’s not going away,"
said Clark.

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CWC said in a statement displaced residents are not paying rent or utilities
while they’re away from home, and CWC is putting them up in hotels and offering
them food and transportation stipends.

CWC adds that they're working closely with the DNR to find a solution and get
people home as soon as possible, though they can't provide an exact timeline
yet.




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