[CPEO-BIF] Excello Plating site Chromium 6, Glendale, California

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Chromium 6 cleanup slated for contaminated lot
But the process could skew results at an adjacent testing facility.

By Brittany Levine
Glendale News Press (CA)
April 1, 2012

Despite efforts to stop it, the chemical Chromium 6 has been seeping  
into Glendale groundwater for years at the site of a defunct plating  
company. By early next month, that will start to change.



Ralphs Grocery Co. plans to finalize the purchase of the nearly 1- 
acre property near the border of Los Angeles and Glendale within the  
next two weeks. With that done, it will begin cleaning up the  
contaminated dirt left behind by Excello Plating Co. in order to  
expand the grocerâs distribution center next door.



"The remediation of the Excello parcel with private funds and its  
restoration to productive use is a win for the community, as well as  
for Ralphs Grocery Co.," company spokeswoman Kendra Doyel said.


...

For the entire article, see
http://www.glendalenewspress.com/news/tn-gnp-0401-cleanup-slated-for- 
contaminated-lot,0,3133514.story

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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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