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Instruments now pepper the mound, checking for escaping toxins.
The room is bright, even on a cloudy February morning. Eisengrein and the local activist group, Acton Citizens for Environmental Safety, which he joined in 1982 when he moved to town, helped force Grace to clean up its land over nearly two decades. The environmental group was successful by pushing for the facts about what the company was discharging into the environment, the risks the toxins posed to neighboring residents and the best clean-up solutions. But this time, the environmental group found it much easier to collect that information, thanks to a database sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, which cataloged large discharges of hundreds of potentially toxic chemicals by some 20,000 companies nationwide. Eisengrein knew what to do, having introduced computers into Kingsbury Corp., a Keene, N.H., machine tool company where he worked as an electrical engineer.