[CPEO-BIF] Eagle Picher (Socorro, NM) investigation

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Eagle Picher tests go beyond lead

Survey Monday will also look at chemical that has shown up in
groundwater tests



Dana L. Bowley 
El Defensor Chieftain (NM)
March 30, 2005


State and federal documents raise the possibility that the Eagle Picher
property north of Socorro slipped through the environmental cracks on a
number of fronts.

A real-time grid survey of the property scheduled Monday by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency is expected to determine if that is the
case and to what extent.

Sabino Rivera, an environmental specialist with the state Environment
Department, said this week that in addition to testing for lead in the
soil, the EPA will also be sampling for solvents that were used in
different manufacturing processes in the Eagle Picher plant and on the
property over three decades. Rivera is the state's Eagle Picher project
manager and liaison with the EPA. The state agency conducts monitoring
for the federal agency.

The EPA will also collect samples from two new monitoring wells
installed last week at the Eagle Picher site and from 12 other
monitoring wells around the city, he said.

...

"I went to a seminar on Brownfields," he said, "and they were saying
there was lots of money available under the program, that a lot of it
was going unused."

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.dchieftain.com/news/49868-03-30-05.html


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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
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