[CPEO-BIF] AVX's TCE cleanup, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

AVX speaks out on pollution

Company says lawsuit won't interfere with cleanup efforts

By David Wren
Myrtle Beach Sun News (SC)
February 20, 2009

Executives with Myrtle Beach-based AVX Corp. said Thursday they are 
committed to cleaning up ground water contamination in a neighborhood 
near the company's headquarters despite the manufacturer's court battle 
with the military over who is responsible for the pollution.

Evan Slavitt, AVX's vice president for business and legal affairs, told 
residents the company's lawsuits with the Air Force and others "won't 
affect the landowners" who are awaiting cleanup of groundwater laced 
with the industrial degreaser trichloroethylene.

AVX has been paying for testing and working on a cleanup plan with the 
S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control, which hosted 
Thursday's meeting of community representatives and state health regulators.

Those regulators said AVX will test its pollution control equipment for 
the first time next week to determine how much toxins are emitted into 
the air near its 17th Avenue South facility.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/story/790938.html

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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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