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

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

EPA finds no big threat at Superfund site

BY JEFFREY TOMICH
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (MO)
August 10, 2011

The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday night said  
contamination from the Carter Carburetor Superfund site, an  
industrial eyesore in north St. Louis, hasn't spread to surrounding  
neighborhoods and poses no health risk.

The EPA this spring collected soil, sediment and air samples from  
yards, vacant lots and homes around the old plant - the area  
considered at the highest risk if pollutants had migrated off-site.

At Tuesday's meeting at the Herbert Hoover Boys and Girls Club, Karl  
Brooks, the Kansas City-based regional administrator for the EPA,  
assured the audience that there was no reason to be alarmed.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/ 
article_21e24bcc-74f3-5b49-8564-459b6228f769.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope Street, Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650-961-8918 or 650-969-1545
Fax: 650-961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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