[CPEO-BIF] AVX Groundwater Cleanup, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

DHEC: Contamination cleanup plan for Myrtle Beach most expensive but  
fastest

By David Wren
Myrtle Beach Sun News (SC)
November 1, 2011

State officials said Tuesday their recommended plan to clean up a  
decades-long environmental spill from the AVX Corp. manufacturing  
facility in Myrtle Beach will do more to help residents affected by  
the contamination than any of the other cleanup proposals they have  
studied.

Although deed restrictions on private property are possible under the  
proposal outlined Tuesday, the S.C. Department of Health and  
Environmental Control said the proposed plan would eliminate  
groundwater pollution in half the time of other proposals.

...

Tarte said residents want to sell their homes but can’t get market  
value because of the contamination.

State Rep. Alan Clemmons, R-Myrtle Beach, questioned DHEC officials  
during a meeting at Lakewood Elementary School over whether they  
considered the economic impact on homeowners near AVX when a cleanup  
plan was being considered.

"It’s not one of the criteria [we studied], but the remedy we've  
selected would do that because it takes the least amount of time  
which would be beneficial to homeowners," said Carol Minsk, a hydro  
geologist with DHEC and the project manager overseeing cleanup of the  
neighborhood.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thesunnews.com/2011/11/01/2477045/dhec-contamination- 
cleanup-plan.html

See also
http://www.thesunnews.com/2011/11/03/2480035/avx-demolition-plans- 
delay-pollution.html and
http://www.thesunnews.com/2011/10/31/2475148/dhec-to-present-proposed- 
cleanup.html

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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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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