[CPEO-BIF] Carter Carburetor site, St. Louis, Missouri

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA acts to clean up Carter Carburetor site

By Robert Koenig
St. Louis Beacon (MO)
March 30, 2011
WASHINGTON - Federal environmental officials took an important  
enforcement action Wednesday toward the $26.5 million cleanup of  
toxic pollutants at the old Carter Carburetor property, which has  
been an eyesore for a quarter century and a worry to its north St.  
Louis neighbors, including the nearby Herbert Hoover Boys and Girls  
Club.

Under its Enforcement Action Memorandum (link is to a PDF), the U.S.  
Environmental Protection Agency formally requested final approval for  
its plans to clean up PCB (polychlorinated biphenyl), a chemical from  
old electric transformers and hydraulic fluids and TCE  
(Trichloroethene), a solvent that was banned in the 1970s in the soil  
and buildings at the site.

U.S. Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-St. Louis, said Wednesday that "this  
cleanup is absolutely critical because so many children are  
potentially at risk across the street at the Herbert Hoover Boys &  
Girls Club. The neighborhood deserves a clean and safe environment to  
raise children, create new business opportunities and grow jobs."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.stlbeacon.org/issues-politics/96-Development/109248-epa- 
acts-to-clean-up-carter-carburetor-site

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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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