[CPEO-BIF] Electric heating remedy at former Spellman Engineering warehouse, Orlando, Florida

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Orlando pollution sites targeted for high-voltage cleanup

By Kevin Spear
Orlando Sentinel
September 24, 2012

A poisonous mess of industrial solvent lurking underground near  
downtown Orlando is about to get hit with the "big hammer" of  
environmental cleanups, while a smaller but similar problem near City  
Hall will be treated this week using more conventional methods.

After equipment tests this week, project managers will flip some  
switches to send electricity pulsing 50 feet into the ground just  
north of Lake Highland, near Virginia Drive and Orange Avenue. The  
current - enough to supply several blocks of homes with power - will  
pass between clusters of steel contacts and, as it encounters  
resistance from sand, clay and water, will turn the subterranean  
environment steaming hot.

If all goes as expected, several hundred gallons of the solvent  
called trichloroethylene, or TCE, will start to boil and form a vapor  
to be captured by an underground network of suction pipes.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-tce-two-orlando- 
cleanups-20120924,0,7202178.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>
http://www.cpeo.org

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