[CPEO-BIF] Whirlpool site TCE, Fort Smith, Arkansas

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

ADEQ letter raises doubts on Whirlpool TCE claims

by Ryan Saylor
Fort Smith City Wire (AR)
February 28, 2013

At a Feb. 12 meeting of the Fort Smith Board of Directors, a lawyer  
and consultants representing Whirlpool said possible cancer-causing  
chemicals in the ground around its former Fort Smith manufacturing  
facility had not spread. But the Whirlpool representatives were  
notified by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ)  
20 days prior to that presentation that trichloroethylene (TCE) was  
not necessarily contained.

Asked by Director Pam Weber what the risk was of contamination  
spreading at that meeting, Greg Gillespie of ENVIRON International  
Corp., a company hired by Whirlpool to deal with the contamination,  
made a very direct claim.
"(It's) minimal, because it has not moved," he said.

But according to a Jan. 22 letter to Whirlpool's Robert Karwowski,  
director of Environmental, Health and Safety, the ADEQ said that  
claim was not necessarily accurate.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.thecitywire.com/node/26690

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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