TCE threatens new home, couple never warned of risk (WI)
The American dream has turned into a nightmare for Green and Glenda Jackson after the couple learned that the site where they built their first home is contaminated with a chemical believed to be linked to cancer.Read the full story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (WI).
In its former life, the property - in the 1600 block of W. Galena St. - was a gas station and leather tannery. Traces of trichloroethylene, or TCE, a solvent sometimes used to degrease metal parts, has been found in the soil underneath the Jacksons' home.
"Someone should have known this," said Glenda Jackson, whose property formerly belonged to the City of Milwaukee. "We are very angry that the city allowed us to stay in this house with all of the known health risk. I don't want us to end up with cancer."