[CPEO-BIF] Columbus, Nebraska dry-cleaning plume

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

EPA plans to tear down three city sites

By Tyler Ellyson
Columbus Telegram (NE)
June 9, 2012

COLUMBUS - The Environmental Protection Agency now plans to tear down  
two city businesses and a former site that contributed to a massive  
plume of contaminated ground water as it continues the effort to  
clean up the area.

The buildings - Prestige Dry Cleaning, Liberty Cleaners and the  
former Jackson Cleaners building, now the city recycling center -  
would be leveled so soil on the properties can be removed and  
treatment can progress under the proposed plan.

Project Manager Nancy Swyers said the "preferred remedy" now includes  
demolition of the three properties to expedite a clean-up process  
that started nearly three decades ago.

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For the entire article, see
http://columbustelegram.com/news/local/epa-plans-to-tear-down-three- 
city-businesses/article_e0b05e18-b2ad-11e1-9022-0019bb2963f4.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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