[CPEO-BIF] Tecumseh Products site, Tecumseh, Michigan

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chemical leach near Products plant leads to contamination notice

By DEB WUETHRICH
Tecumseh Herald (MI)
April 8, 2009

It's good news to many in the community that city officials, Tecumseh 
Products and Consolidated Biscuit Company (CBC) continue to work 
together toward bringing nearly 500 jobs to Tecumseh over a period of 
the next five years. That work, however, has included some 
time-consuming tasks to ensure that the property occupied by Tecumseh 
Products for more than 70 years will not pass on any inherited problems 
to its new owner.

During Phase 2 investigations required by the Michigan Department of 
Environmental Quality (MDEQ), reports have revealed low levels of 
chemical concentrations (TCE-trichloroethene) that had leached into 
ground water that rises above certain levels and requires notification 
of anyone who might live on perimeter property.

MDEQ standards list a maximum amount of certain chemicals that can be in 
ground water and note that this involves concentrations in which less 
than 1 in 1,000 people will get ill after a lifetime of exposure, 
according to Teresa Hess, Tecumseh Products Director of Financial 
Reporting and Investor Relations. She said sites that show levels above 
that have the potential for contamination in wells of a certain depth 
and surrounding property owners must be notified. Hess said letters were 
expected to be mailed yet this week to the 20 or 30 property owners who 
could be affected, including some businesses. It will be accompanied 
with a question and answer attachment to help address and allay property 
owner's concerns, Hess said.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.tecumsehherald.com/node/1773

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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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