Was well water the only water used at the Hall Street View-Master plant?
Apparently not. It has been reported that at a certain time in the 1960’s the well water began to spot the film used in the View-Master reels. For this reason film processing was switched to Bull Run City water and the employees were served the well water. There have also been reports that certain drinking fountains benefited from film processing switching to city water. However it is undetermined which drinking fountains were city water and which remained well water. This has put a hitch in determining which employees and which departments were exposed to TCE via ingestion as well as by dermal absorption (washing hands in the bathrooms or using the water to perform industrial duties.) or inhalation (breathing in TCE vapors as the toilets were flushed or working with TCE directly.) The Oregon Department Human Services has proposed trying to recreate the exposure pathways in order to better understand the extent of which employees during which years sustained the most exposure to TCE wh
