Governor Brown Extends Cease and Desist Order to Bullseye

Governor Brown Friday ordered the state Department of Environmental Quality to extend a cease and desist order preventing Bullseye Glass from using certain metals through at least June 8.

She had the department issue the original order last week.

The original move came after air monitoring at a daycare facility near Bullseye Glass in Southeast Portland showed "an immediate, short-term health risk from lead levels that were four times above the 24-hour benchmark."

The order from DEQ requires Bullseye to stop using lead, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, all chromium compounds, cobalt, manganese, nickel, and selenium in any uncontrolled furnace.

There will be more lead testing next week at a site and times to be determined.

The concerning air results were from tests done May 9th but it takes several days to get them processed, officials said.

They were able to use weather data to determine that winds had carried the lead from the plant to the daycare center.

The air monitoring has been taking place since earlier this year when The Portland Mercury broke the story of how alarming levels of arsenic and cadmium had been found near the factory.

Since then there have questions about what DEQ knew and when did they know it.