[CPEO-BIF] H&L Plating and Grinding, Muncie, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

$5 million contamination of the H&L Plating and Grinding factory remains 
a whodunit

By SETH SLABAUGH
Muncie Star-Press (IN)
October 17, 2009

MUNCIE -- The truth might never come out as to who caused the 
contamination that is resulting in a cleanup costing more than $5 
million at H&L Plating and Grinding.

In 2003, former Ball State University police chief Joe Wehner and his 
wife Jeannie agreed to buy the factory at 401 E. Willard St. -- which 
they operated until closing it several months ago -- from her 
grandparents, Howard and Louise Larsen.

The Wehners later stopped payments to the Larsens and filed a lawsuit in 
federal court accusing them of having drilled holes in the basement 
floor and allowing liquid chromic acid to drain into the ground. The 
lawsuit also accused the Larsens of improperly burying toxic waste in 
the basement and pouring concrete over it.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20091017/NEWS01/910170315/1002

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org



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