[CPEO-BIF] Stamina Mill, North Smithfield, Rhode Island

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Decades later, N.S. Superfund site is still contaminated

By JOSEPH FITZGERALD
Woonsocket Call (RI)
February 12, 2009

NORTH SMITHFIELD - Homeowners in the vicinity of the Stamina Mill 
Superfund site in Forestdale were reminded by federal environmental 
officials Thursday to continue to use care and caution using water 
because the groundwater table is still contaminated by the carcinogen 
Trichloroethylene (TCE).

"This stuff spilled in the 1960s and it’s still there," Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA) Project Manager Byron Mah told about 15 
residents during a public informational hearing at the North Smithfield 
Public Library. The hearing was held to update the town on the agency's 
ongoing efforts to clean up the site contaminated more than 30 years ago.

...

The groundwater extraction and treatment system design and construction 
was completed in the spring of 2000, and the system became operational 
in May of that year. Last year, a work plan was developed to evaluate 
potential vapor intrusion issues near the site and field studies are 
currently underway.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.woonsocketcall.com/content/view/73158/112/

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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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