[CPEO-BIF] Heinzman Engineering site, Grand Island, Nebraska

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Contamination plume continues to migrate, well prohibition coming

By Tracy Overstreet
Grand Island Independent (NE)
May 19, 2010

Groundwater 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.


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For the entire article, see
http://theindependent.com/articles/2010/05/19/news/local/11834793.prt

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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
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