2011 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2011 09:51:44 -0700 (PDT)
Reply: cpeo-brownfields
Subject: [CPEO-BIF] West Bountiful (UT) VOC plumes
 
Cleaning of contaminated plume could take 60 years

by Melinda Williams
Davis County Clipper (UT)
June 11, 2011

WEST BOUNTIFUL - It could be as long as 60 years before a second PCE plume, part of the Bountiful/Woods Cross plume site is cleaned up.

In the meantime, West Bountiful residents shouldn't be concerned about the safety of culinary wells in the areas. The EPA has hooked those residents who had been using domestic wells which could be contaminated, with a municipal water system, EPA project manager Mario Robles said, and at this time, "to our knowledge, no contaminated wells are being used for drinking water.

The Superfund site is divided into two operable units. The first plume, known as OU1 (operable unit 1) is on the old Hatchco property in Woods Cross and consists of trichloroethylene or TCE, a degreaser for metal parts.The second plume is known as OU2, and is tetrachloroethene or PCE.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.clippertoday.com/view/full_story/14027186/article-Cleaning- of-contaminated-plume-could-take-60-years? instance=secondary_stories_left_column

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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