[CPEO-BIF] Energizer VOCs, Bennington, Vermont

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Energizer starts groundwater tests

REBECCA ROBINSON
Bennington Banner (VT)
February 16, 2007

BENNINGTON - Workers contracted by Environmental Resource Management, a 
global environmental resources firm, spent the day drilling underground 
on Gage Street to test for solvents outside the Energizer battery plant.

Challenging environment

According to plant Manager Jeffrey Schroeder, the workers were "trying 
to get the tests done in this challenging environment," referring to the 
snow and gusty winds that made for bitterly cold conditions outside 
where the drilling was taking place.

The testing comes after an announcement by Schroeder in January on 
behalf of the Bennington plant that Energizer had found the presence of 
the solvents tetrachlorethene, or PCE, and trichlorethene (TCE), in the 
soil surrounding the battery plant during a routine self-audit in March 
2006. Both of these solvents are found in many common household cleaning 
products, and TCE has been linked to cancer and damage to the nervous 
system.

Michael Smith, a site management worker for the Waste Management 
Division of the state's Department of Environmental Conservation, said, 
"This weather has really, really shut things down," adding that the 
process of drilling underground to find groundwater samples was made 
more difficult by the nature of the land surrounding the plant.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.benningtonbanner.com/headlines/ci_5239172

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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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