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NEW YORK -- The EPA has proposed a plan to continue the clean up of VOC contamination at the Computer Circuits Superfund site in Hauppauge, New York.

The Computer Circuits Corporation operated from this site from 1969 to 1977. Waste liquids from the circuit board manufacturing process were discharged to five industrial leaching pools. These waste liquids contained metals, acids, and solvents. Photographic chemicals and waste liquids were segregated and discharged into a separate industrial leaching pool.

“EPA has been working on this site for some time now and we are seeing to it that this cleanup is solidly under way,” Regional Administrator Alan J. Steinberg said. “We feel that this proposed plan will further advance the work that EPA has been doing.”

The plan includes soil vacuum extraction (SVE) that extracts volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from soil near the north side of a one-story building on the property, as well as from underneath the foundation of the building. Furthermore, an additional SVE system is being installed to clean up a second area off the southeast corner of the building, which was also found to have residual VOC contamination. The EPA is also recommending long-term ground water monitoring through an existing network of monitoring wells.

Soil and ground water monitoring in 1989 and again in the 1990’s disclosed metals including lead, silver, copper, nickel and zinc in the soil samples, and certain VOCs, including trichloroethylene (TCE) and tetrachloroethene were detected in the ground water samples.

ANAHEIM, CA -- DDi Corporation has received the AS9100:2004-01 certification for its Virginia facility. This internationally recognized aerospace industry standard for quality assurance in design, development, production, installation and service is an extension of ISO 9001. In 2007, DDi received the AS9100 certification for its Anaheim and Milpitas, CA and Ohio facilities.

"The receipt of AS9100 certification at our Virginia facility is the result of our continuing efforts to meet the critical needs of the defense, military and aerospace customers," stated Mikel H. Williams, president and CEO of DDi Corporation. We continue to extend both the technical capabilities and capacity of our Virginia facility. Currently, we are in the process of a significant upgrade of our high-technology plating capacity, and look to bring this project on line later this year."