[CPEO-BIF] Muncie Paper Processing site, Muncie, Indiana

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

[And there appears to be no plan to address the TCE in groundwater. -  
LS]

Southside cleanup site costlier than expected
While $56,000 was budgeted, it could cost three times that to clean  
up Muncie Paper Processing site

by Seth Slabaugh
Muncie Star-Press (IN)
July 31, 2012

MUNCIE - A contaminated, overgrown and abandoned industrial site -  
now owned by the county - is being cleaned up on the south side.

But the job is bigger than expected.

IWM Consulting Group, Indianapolis, originally estimated it would  
have to remove 350 tons of soil from one area of the site and another  
650 tons from another area.

But the amount of soil that has been removed from the first area has  
grown to 3,000 tons, and excavation of the second area has not yet  
started.

"They came across buried batteries, 55-gallon drums and other  
contamination that will probably add upwards of $100,000 to the cost  
of the cleanup," said Brad Bookout, a consultant to county  
commissioners and brownfield development manager at Energize ECI.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thestarpress.com/article/20120801/NEWS01/308010013

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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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