[CPEO-BIF] RMI Extrusion site, Ashtabula, Ohio

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Former RMI site in line for $2.2M

By CARL E. FEATHER
Ashtabula Star Beacon (OH)
May 2, 2009

ASHTABULA - A $2.2 million project on the Ohio Environmental Protection 
Agency's (EPA) draft list of stimulus projects would treat groundwater 
at an Ashtabula Township site, which the U.S. Department of Energy 
certified as being clean in January 2007.

The project, if it passes a series of hearings and reviews, would be 
funded with $1.1 million in federal stimulus (American Recovery and 
Reinvestment Act) money and $1.1 million from the state's 
water-pollution-control loan fund.

The former RMI Extrusion Plant site on East 21st Street is listed as the 
site of the project, which made Ohio EPA's intended-project priority 
list and is headed for a public hearing next week. Listed as "TCE 
groundwater remediation," the project's applicant is Absorbent Materials 
Co. LLC, a Wooster company that specializes in cleanup of groundwater 
trichloroethylene (TCE) using reactive glass.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.starbeacon.com/local/local_story_122003740.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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