[CPEO-BIF] Grain fumigant, Hanover, Kansas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

KDHE plans meeting on contamination


By TIM UNRUH
Salina Journal (KS)
May 15, 2009

HANOVER -- The Kansas Department of Health & Environment plans a public 
meeting 7 p.m. May 28 at the Kloppenberg Senior Center in Hanover to 
provide results of an ongoing investigation into contamination at a 
former grain storage site.

A grain fumigant used at a federal grain storage site at Hanover from 
1950 through the early 1970s has contaminated soil, groundwater and 
indoor air in Hanover, and the underground plume has moved under the 
town, KDHE officials said Wednesday in a conference call from Topeka.

...

The fumigant, known as 80-20, consisting of 80 percent carbon 
tetrachloride and 20 percent carbon disulfide, was used at the grain 
storage site where there were several metal grain bins.

...

Vapor intrusion is a concern in some homes built over the grain storage 
site, but it can be dealt with using aeration equipment similar to that 
used for radon mitigation, he said, and the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture will pay for it.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.saljournal.com/news/story/contamination-in-Hanover-51309

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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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