At 02:27 AM 10/20/2000, Tim May wrote:
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PCBs are as close as your nearest utility pole transformer.
Are they as dangerous as reporters have led us to believe? My suspicion? No.
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Granted, this thread is probably about as old and dead as it can get.
I've had an electronics engineer, a former professor of mine and someone
who claims to have worked on the original cruise missiles, tell me that,
and I'll paraphrase as close as I can get to a quote, "one drop on the
tongue of a dog is enough to kill a man". From what he provided, these
things tend to cause cancer, and the dirt underneath old transformers,
should those transformers have become leaky, is probably adequately
tainted, and already needs clean up anyway. Impound a few ounces of
alleyway dirt with the car.
Then you're doing the planet a Service. Boxing up preexisting contaminated
waste.
Good luck,
Sean Roach
