[CPEO-BIF] AVX Plume, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Forums to cover toxins at AVX: DHEC to discuss contamination of neighborhood

David Wren
Myrtle Beach Sun News (SC)
December 6, 2007

The state's Department of Health and Environmental Control will meet
next week with Myrtle Beach residents to discuss toxic contamination in
the groundwater near electronics manufacturer AVX Corp.'s facility, the
agency said Wednesday.

The community forums will happen more than a year after DHEC first
learned that trichloroethylene, an industrial degreaser, had spread
beyond AVX's property on 17th Avenue South.

AVX knew about trichloroethylene, or TCE, contamination at its site
since at least 1981, although the manufacturer didn't tell DHEC about
the problem until 1995.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/892822/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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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