From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Wed, 26 May 2010 17:19:03 -0700 (PDT) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Heinzman Engineering site, Grand Island, Nebraska |
Contamination plume continues to migrate, well prohibition coming By Tracy Overstreet Grand Island Independent (NE) May 19, 2010Groundwater contaminated by degreasing solvents dumped at the former Heinzman Engineering irrigation company in the 1970s, is continuing to migrate under Grand Island. Brad Vann, Superfund project manager from the Environmental Protection Agency's Kansas City, Kan., office said groundwater moves down gradient about 1.5 feet a day. It takes 10 years to move a mile. In Grand Island, the gradient creates a west-to-east or west-to-northeast flow of groundwater carrying the industrial solvents tetrachloroethylene and 1,1-trichloroethane. "It's a very large plume of contamination," Vann told a small group of about 25 at a public meeting Tuesday night. ... For the entire article, see http://theindependent.com/articles/2010/05/19/news/local/11834793.prt -- 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 _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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