[CPEO-BIF] South Bend plans ahead

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Salvaging the environment
City aims to protect South Well Field from contamination

SOUTH BEND TO BUY SALVAGE YARD

By JEFF PARROTT 
South Bend Tribune (IN)
February 15, 2005

SOUTH BEND -- The city is buying a site long used as an auto salvage
yard to prevent further groundwater contamination near a well field it
expects will become increasingly important.

City Public Works Director Gary Gilot said chemicals leaking from
vehicles crushed at Indiana Auto Parts, formerly known as Super Auto
Salvage, 3300 S. Main St., have contaminated the soil at the site. City
officials fear the contamination could spread to the city's nearby South
Well Field if the salvage operation continues indefinitely.

...

Shafer downplayed the level of contamination in the yard. The top foot
or two of soil might contain gasoline and oil, but he is willing to
scrape that off before vacating the site, he said. The yard does not
accept mechanical equipment that, when crushed, would release more
volatile types of pollutants, he said.

Shafer said city officials have told him they would like a shopping
center at the site, which has been an auto salvage yard since 1937.

...

For the entire article, see

http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2005/02/15/local.20050215-sbt-LOCL-A1-Salvaging_the.sto 

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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