[CPEO-BIF] Chamberlain Manufacturing, Waterloo, Iowa

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Re-using Chamberlain site mulled

By PAT KINNEY
Waterloo Cedar-Falls Courier (IA)
November 16, 2005

WATERLOO --- William Frost was an electrician at Chamberlain
Manufacturing Corp. in the 1970s when the defense contractor employed
hundreds of people in Waterloo.

As of late, he and others have been on the outside looking in at their
former place of employment --- for a long time.

...

If the city does take title to the property, it will have to seek
government grants and, potentially, help from the previous manufacturing
owner to clean up contamination at the site, Waterloo Community Planning
and Development Director Don Temeyer said.

A $350,000 study of the site, funded with a federal "brownfields" grant
and conducted by Howard R. Green and Associates, revealed the presence
of unacceptable levels of trichloroethylene, or TCE, a chemical
degreasing agent and a carcinogen, on the site and in adjacent test
wells off the site.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2005/11/16/news/metro/252b822c5500cd67862570bb004bd3f2.txt

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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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