[CPEO-BIF] Wayne Metal, Ft. Wayne, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Wayne Metal cleanup inches nearer
Company revises plan 5 years after pollution found

Dan Stockman
Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette (IN)
July 5, 2009

Nearly five years after toxic chemicals were found moving toward a 
middle school, the company causing the contamination has a plan to clean 
it up.

Wayne Metal Protection, 1511 Wabash Ave., reported polluting the soil 
and groundwater to Indiana's voluntary cleanup program in the fall of 
2004, but consistently missed state deadlines for investigating the 
extent of the contamination and forming a cleanup plan. The 
metal-plating company sits a few hundred feet away - and uphill - from 
Memorial Park Middle School, and the plume of contamination extends 
toward the school.

...

Though monitoring wells show the chemical plume has not reached school 
property, Fort Wayne Community Schools has spent almost $24,000 on air 
and water testing to ensure the nearby middle school is safe, according 
to FWCS documents. Those tests have not shown any problems.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20090705/LOCAL10/307059916/1002/LOCAL

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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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