[CPEO-BIF] Unitrode site, Westbrook, Maine

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Groundwater contamination in Westbrook a problem?

Jason Wheeler
WCSH TV-6 News (Portland, ME)
April 1, 2010

WESTBROOK, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Contamination at the site of a former 
electronics manufacturer could put Pike Industries expansion plans on hold.

The contamination is from the Unitrode site, a former electronics 
producer that closed up shop in 1990, just hundreds of feet from where 
Pike has proposed plans to mine and blast for their asphalt and concrete 
manufacturing operations.

From 1977 until the time Unitrode closed, chemicals like 
trichloroethylene, commonly associated with dry cleaning, had been 
leaking into the soil, and seeping into the groundwater. The Department 
of Environmental Protection already keeps tabs on the site, and 
residents are concerned that Pike's blasting could force those chemicals 
even closer to the nearby Stroudwater River and deeper into the groundwater.

...

For the entire story, see
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=116102&catid=2

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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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