From: | Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org> |
Date: | Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:47:01 -0800 (PST) |
Reply: | cpeo-brownfields |
Subject: | [CPEO-BIF] Whirlpool site TCE, Fort Smith, Arkansas |
ADEQ letter raises doubts on Whirlpool TCE claims by Ryan Saylor Fort Smith City Wire (AR) February 28, 2013At 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 -- 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 _______________________________________________ Brownfields mailing list Brownfields@lists.cpeo.org http://lists.cpeo.org/listinfo.cgi/brownfields-cpeo.org | |
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