[CPEO-BIF] Memorial Park Middle School, Fort Wayne, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Tainted soil, water near middle school
Metals company ordered to submit cleanup plan by June 1

By Dan Stockman
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette (IN)
April 29, 2007	


A metal coatings company has known for two years that dangerous 
chemicals have polluted soil and groundwater 200 feet from Memorial Park 
Middle School grounds but has not started a cleanup.

Wayne Metal Protection discovered a plume of tetrachloroethylene in the 
soil and groundwater beneath its facility at 1511 Wabash Ave., in 
September 2004 and reported the pollution to the Indiana Department of 
Environmental Management.

Later investigations by the company found other pollutants either on or 
around the site, including trichloroethylene, cyanide, arsenic, lead and 
chromium, according to IDEM documents.

...

But Corey Webb, IDEM's project manager for the cleanup, said as far as 
the agency knows, the extent of the plume is unknown because the company 
has not sent in its plan. IDEM officials fear the chemical vapors could 
be coming out of the ground and into homes and classrooms.

"If offsite impacts are such that would pose an immediate threat to 
human health or the environment, action should be taken immediately," 
the agency wrote in an April 2006 letter to the company notifying it the 
deadline had passed to submit a cleanup plan and giving it another 60 
days to submit one. "The possibility of vapor intrusion should be 
specifically addressed if site conditions indicate contaminant migration 
towards the school and/or homes."


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/17153549.htm

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org


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