"When asked if Google was pushing to have the groundwater cleaned up, the Google spokesperson said, "We'd welcome and expect all the original parties involved to continue to innovate in finding new and improved science for removing this and all chemicals from our groundwater throughout the country."

To translate: "No, someone else made the mess, someone else should clean it up. We support someone else cleaning it up"

I don't blame them for that stance, but I sure would be leery about working all day in that building.

shoreline lake contaminated too? probably

Subslab depressurization systems are protective because they cause vapors to move down from inside buildings, rather than up from the contaminated soil. In my experience, air filters are not very protective.

Intel, Fairchild, HP, etc. need to buy up all the land that they polluted and clean it up once and for all. No one should be allowed to live or work on this land until it is cleaned up. Surely, the cleanup will go much faster if all the buildings are removed first. Do it now before we see a spike in cancer rates around our city.

I understand that Promethus did not allow testing in the apartments at 600 Whisman. Hopefully this will spur the people who live there to contact the agency directly and measure the conditions in their apartments.

Just the gassy aftermath of the Chromebook Pixel announcement. Move along.

This just in, mass numbers of lawyers have begun pee-ing themselves in excitement over a company knowingly making workers work in a toxic environment. Its in Google's best interest to help. While its not their legal responsibility, for a company that prided its slogan as "Do no evil", knowingly allowing their workers to sit in TCE fumes is not living up to that standard. If I worked there, 1) I would contact a lawyer, and 2) I would request a formal move from that building. Get it in writing. When you're 50 and liver cancer is diagnosed, it will be too late.

That entire area, 100s of square miles, are contaminated. Moffett Field was one of the worst polluters as the government used TCE to clean everything (machinery, aircraft, etc.) and then dumped the barrels on the ground (not understanding the environmental effects at the time). Many, many former employees have died from liver failure and many today are sick from having worked there. Good luck cleaning it up.

"100s of square miles."

Have you actually seen the plume map (I have)and do you know how large hundreds of square miles is (I do)
Yes, what you say about the use of TCE in the past is true....that part is true. Don't exaggerate. There is no need if you have a valid point

The google offices will be safer than the Whisman Station homes. This is amazing.

Amazing.. I can remember when they tore down the Fairchild Buildings.

They had to leave the soil open to the air.. for a while I recall.. to let chemicals evaporate into the air. Then they built new buildings right on top fo the toxic waste.

Then they did the same thing with the old GTE site a few years later. And they built houses on top of that pile of checmicals.

I don't know who'd buy a home or work in any of those buildings. Not me.

"Though regularly tested since 2003, in December Google's new buildings at 369 and 379 Whisman Road were found for the first time to have TCE vapors above the Environmental Protection Agency's indoor screening level, said Alana Lee, project manager for the EPA. "

Do you really think ANY level of a carcinogen is safe?