[CPEO-BIF] Oconomowoc Electroplating site, Ashippun, Wisconsin

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA seeks to revise electroplating cleanup


Watertown Daily Times (WI)
November 12, 2010


ASHIPPUN - After 20 years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and 
the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources want to revise the 
original cleanup plan for the Oconomowoc Electroplating Co. Inc. site in 
the town of Ashippun.

According to the EPA, the active treatment system is no longer effective 
in removing the leftover contamination. Under Superfund law, the EPA 
needs to amend the original cleanup plan.

...

In 1990, the EPA adopted a plan for cleaning up on-site groundwater that 
was contaminated by toxic metals and volatile organic compounds, known 
as VOCs. The VOCs included trichloroethylene or TCE, used in 
electroplating and degreasing operations and vinyl chloride, produced 
when TCE degrades in the natural environment.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.wdtimes.com/articles/2010/11/13/news/news3.txt

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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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